I've listened to telephone recordings of
vishing and heard even cynical people can get worn down by the constant onslaught.
Vishing: This is the telephone equivalent of phishing where a person uses the phone to acquire information from a victim.
Detective Chief Inspector Kenny Thomson, of Police Scotland's economic crime and financial investigation unit, said: "The way this crime works is similar to a
vishing scam.
There have been numerous cases where the customers have lost their money due to hacking, '
vishing' and other criminal actions of the fraudsters.
Examples of these scams include phishing emails and
vishing, fraudulent phone calls in which callers ask for personal or financial information by posing as computer technical support agents.
One example is the telephone scam called "
vishing", which involves someone poses as a bank fraud investigation officer or a police officer in order to get information.
Specifically by having SIP and H.323 proxy protection, WatchGuard XTM appliances protect against a multitude of VoIP threats, including denial of service attacks, spam over Internet telephony (SPIT), voice service theft, registration hijacking, eavesdropping, directory harvesting, voice phishing (
vishing) and more.
<p>Once the VoIP system is hacked, the criminals use it to perform phone-based phishing attacks, sometimes called
vishing.
Vishing attacks have been around for a few years now, but they've largely flown under the radar, because they often target smaller regional banks rather than high-profile national institutions.
The next chapter introduces higher mathematical models for working with phishing identification and mitigation and more complicated
vishing attacks.
The retrieved information could be employed to empty bank accounts, but also for subsequent spamming, phishing or
vishing purposes.
Vishing bank accounts will accelerate, due to ease of exploit and the appeal of easy money.