topic Phishing spam is getting better ... in Industry News https://community.isc2.org/t5/Industry-News/Phishing-spam-is-getting-better/m-p/27122#M3392 <P>Gloria asked me to have a look at an email message "from" our bank.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Other than addressing her as an "esteemed" customer, it looked pretty good.&nbsp; No problems with spelling or grammar.&nbsp; A security warning at the bottom.&nbsp; The head office address for the bank.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>When I looked at the headers, there were only a few, very small, indications of possible problems.&nbsp; It was sent from a domain that was not owned by the bank, but a lot of companies are outsourcing a lot of IT functions, so that wasn't exactly definitive.&nbsp; It had a couple of headers indicative of spam filtering.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>About the only thing that solidly demonstrated a problem was that the link to "verify" your account was addressed to a domain that was not owned by the bank.&nbsp; (Now if banks start outsourcing account verification ...)</P> Mon, 09 Oct 2023 09:18:50 GMT rslade 2023-10-09T09:18:50Z Phishing spam is getting better ... https://community.isc2.org/t5/Industry-News/Phishing-spam-is-getting-better/m-p/27122#M3392 <P>Gloria asked me to have a look at an email message "from" our bank.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Other than addressing her as an "esteemed" customer, it looked pretty good.&nbsp; No problems with spelling or grammar.&nbsp; A security warning at the bottom.&nbsp; The head office address for the bank.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>When I looked at the headers, there were only a few, very small, indications of possible problems.&nbsp; It was sent from a domain that was not owned by the bank, but a lot of companies are outsourcing a lot of IT functions, so that wasn't exactly definitive.&nbsp; It had a couple of headers indicative of spam filtering.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>About the only thing that solidly demonstrated a problem was that the link to "verify" your account was addressed to a domain that was not owned by the bank.&nbsp; (Now if banks start outsourcing account verification ...)</P> Mon, 09 Oct 2023 09:18:50 GMT https://community.isc2.org/t5/Industry-News/Phishing-spam-is-getting-better/m-p/27122#M3392 rslade 2023-10-09T09:18:50Z