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Phishers smartening up with online threats

One of the obvious signs that can warn internet users if they happen to come across a phishing email is spelling errors but cyber crooks have apparently ironed out this issue, it has emerged.

According to US banking executives, criminals have now improved their spelling or hired someone who can spell properly in their bid to improve the success of their social engineering scams, reports Silicon.com.

Speaking at the RSA Conference in San Francisco, David Shroyer, Bank of America's senior vice president of online security and enrolment, said the crooks are becoming more sophisticated.

Now, they have turned to creating replica sites, which have malware and other online threats hidden in them in order to steal details of anyone visiting them, the website stated.

"People are still clicking on the links to see if they are real and those who aren't adequately protected are getting infected," explained Mr Shroyer.

Qualys Inc recently revealed that some internet users were leaving themselves open to attack by failing to take advantage of online security patches issued by Microsoft.

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