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'Rock Phish' blamed for surge in phishing |
The first thing you need to know about Rock Phish is that nobody knows exactly who, or what, they are.Wikipedia defines the Rock Phish Kit as "a popular tool designed to help nontechnical people create and carry out phishing attacks," but according to security experts, that definition is not correct. They say that Rock Phish is actually a person, or perhaps a group of people, who are behind as much as one half of the phishing attacks being carried out these days.
No one can say for sure where Rock Phish is based, or if the group operates out of a single country.
"They are sort of the Keyser Soze of phishing," said Zulfikar Ramzan, senior principal researcher with Symantec's Security Response group, referring to the secretive criminal kingpin in the 1995 film, "The Usual Suspects."
"They're doing some pretty scary things out there," he added. LinuxWorld | 'Rock Phish' blamed for surge in phishing
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