Analysis uncovers more than 3,200 unique phishing kits

The people behind phishing attacks are always looking for ways to improve their profitability. They quite often re-use material by bundling site resources into a phishing kit, uploading that kit to a server and sending a new batch of emails. Sometimes though they get careless and leave the kits behind allowing them to be analyzed. Trusted access specialist Duo Security carried out a month-long experiment to track down these abandoned kits. Over the course of the study it found more than 3,200 unique phishing kits, tracked the actors behind the kits, identified kit re-use across sites and more. To create… [Continue Reading]