[Cryptography] phishing attack again - $300m in losses?

[Dave Horsfall]

On Wed, 18 Feb 2015, Ray Dillinger wrote:

> I recently had an experience with just this attack; a well-meaning fool 
> had put a "safety" feature on http accesses, and then when some evildoer 
> wanted a site knocked off the network visible to the people whose access 
> was subject to that safety feature, all he had to do was submit a bogus 
> "attack software" report.

Just like the way some of the early DNSBLs operated (before they began to 
be reputation-based): you had a grudge against someone, such as a 
competitor or an ex-lover etc, you got them listed with bogus complaints.

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