Mobile Users More Vulnerable To Phishing Attacks 92
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Orome1 writes "Trusteer recently gained access to the log files of several web servers that were hosting phishing websites. Analyzing these log files provided visibility into how many users accessed the websites, when they visited them, whether they submitted their login information, and what devices they used to access the website. As soon as a phishing website is broadcast through fraudulent email messages the first systems to visit it are typically mobile devices. Most fraudulent emails call for immediate action. For example, they usually claim that suspicious activity has been detected in the user's account and that immediate action is required. Most victims who fall for this ploy will visit the phishing site quickly."
Re:iPhone phishing (Score:5, Informative)
Think about it. What percentage of iPhone users even know what an email header is, let alone how to look at it?
Re:Maybe mobile DEVICES are more vulnerable (Score:4, Informative)
Mobile users are used to having their browser detected as mobile and being shunted off to a simplified and barely functional mobile page.
It is one of the reason that I use firefox with a user agent fuzzer on my android phone.