It’s been on the radar of USA Credit Union’s IT department for three years. They all knew about it. They were watching it every day. They had also heard rumblings that more and more of their industry counterparts had fallen victim to the attackers, said Daniel Schneider, the credit union’s senior manager of IT. Phishing was definitely moving downstream. Once a problem that was squarely targeted at the big banks of the world, phishing has slowly but surely been making its way down the food chain.
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Bigger Phishers to Fry, Part 1: Calling the Pros
Posted by: Denise J. Deveau July 7, 2008 06:00 AMIt’s been on the radar of USA Credit Union’s IT department for three years. They all knew about it. They were watching it every day. They had also heard rumblings that more and more of their industry counterparts had fallen victim to the attackers, said Daniel Schneider, the credit union’s senior manager of IT. Phishing was definitely moving downstream. Once a problem that was squarely targeted at the big banks of the world, phishing has slowly but surely been making its way down the food chain.