back to article Mind your header! There's nothing refreshing about phishers' latest tactic

Palo Alto's Unit 42 threat intel team wants to draw the security industry's attention to an increasingly common tactic used by phishers to harvest victims' credentials. The infocseccers say they'd spotted miscreants abusing refresh entries in HTTP headers to the tune of circa 2,000 large-scale phishing campaigns between May …

  1. sitta_europea Silver badge

    "... the FBI's ... report ... roughly 300,000 cases reported last year. ... in the US and only the ones people spotted and bothered to report. ..."

    They could have a lot more reports if they'd just make it easier. Like a decent API. I'm convinced they don't want more.

  2. Captain Badmouth

    Oh Dear…

    https://securityheaders.com/?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theregister.com%2Fsecurity%2F&followRedirects=on

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