US Banks Experience a Vishing Crisis

US Banks Experience a Vishing Crisis

Damages and Losses Caused by Vishing

PhishLabs, a cybercrime intelligence firm, recently investigated dozens of vishing attacks towards midsized US banks, occurring between October 2013 and April 2014. Vishing, otherwise known as VoIP phishing, is a form of fraud in which an attacker poses as a credible source to draw confidential or sensitive information from an individual over the phone. To learn more about this behaviour, visit our previous post, “Learn to Recognize and Prevent Vishing.”