Catching a Rookie Mistake in a Facebook Phish - Secplicity - Security Simplified

WatchGuard’s DNS-level protection and filtering service, DNSWatch, receives and processes numerous phishes every day. Many of these phishing attempts are monotonous and lack any unique qualities. However, periodically, the DNSWatch Tailored Analysis team triages a phishing attempt that stands out more than others. This short post will show a real-world phish that DNSWatch caught and how analysts were able to garner further information using trivial open-source tools because of a unique mistake by the attacker.

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