Vishing Attacks to Become Commonplace in 2020

guest · Nov 21, 2019

Vishing Attacks to Become Commonplace in 2020
November 20, 2019
https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/vishing-attacks-to-become/

Cybersecurity experts predict that voicemail phishing attacks, otherwise known as vishing, could become a daily occurrence in 2020.

Threat research conducted by Mimecast found that malicious voicemail messages were not just on the rise, but were "evolving and more nuanced than ever before."
In the "Quarterly Threat Intelligence Report: Risk and Resilience Insights" report released by Mimecast today, researchers warned that in 2020, "voicemail will feature more prominently."

Researchers wrote: "The potential for the addition of complexity and malicious payloads, as well as simple phishing, cannot be overlooked. In addition, because the processes and technology to automate voicemail attacks are already ubiquitous, these forms of voicemail phishing will become commonplace in 2020."

Vishing is believed to have already reached a high level of complexity following reports earlier this year of a manager at a UK energy company being duped out of £200,000 by cyber-criminals who used artificial intelligence to make a spoof voicemail that sounded like it had been left by the manager's boss.
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Mimecast: Mimecast Quarterly Threat Intelligence Report - November 2019
(PDF - 7.22 MB): https://www.mimecast.com/globalassets/documents/whitepapers/threat-intelligence-report-november-2019.pdf

mirimir · Nov 21, 2019

Yeah, we've gotten a few voicemails about our infected Apple computer.

Except that we don't own an Apple computer

guest · May 19, 2020

Vishing explained: How voice phishing attacks scam victims
Vishing (voice phishing) is a form of attack that attempts to trick victims into giving up sensitive personal information over the phone
May 18, 2020
https://www.csoonline.com/article/3...-how-voice-phishing-attacks-scam-victims.html

Vishing is a form of attack that attempts to trick victims into giving up sensitive personal information over the phone. While that makes it sound like an old-fashioned scam, vishing attacks have high-tech elements: they involve automated voice simulation technology, for instance, or the scammer may use personal information about the victim harvested from earlier cyberattacks to put them at ease.

No matter what technology is used, the setup for the attack follows a familiar social engineering script: An attacker creates a scenario to prey on human emotions, commonly greed or fear, and convinces the victim to disclose sensitive information, like credit card numbers or passwords.
But vishing calls exploit the fact that we're more likely to trust a human voice — and may target the elderly and technophobic who are naive and have no experience with these types of scams.
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Vishing examples
So far, we've been kind of vague about the specific cons vishers will pull in order to get your money or personal information. HashedOut breaks these down into four broad categories:
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Kapersky has another good rule of thumb: one thing that every vishing scam has in common is an attempt to create a false sense of urgency, making you think you're in trouble or about to miss an opportunity and need to act right now. It never hurts to take a moment to pause, write down information about the caller without offering any of your own, and then call back after doing research.
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