![]() (Clicking on a dark web link - which has a. The practice has been documented and battled for years by researchers and even the owners of dark web markets. ![]() But the phishing on Wikipedia is effective enough - and lucrative enough - to retain the interest of the dark web’s richest dwellers. Like pestilent little swarms of locusts, instances of the scheme are unpredictable and relatively quickly deleted. The victims don’t elicit much sympathy, as it’s the equivalent of getting robbed while trying to buy drugs in a secluded city park, but the situation does illustrate the persistent power of phishing. Persistent and profit-driven crooks have spent the last half-decade unexpectedly popping up to vandalize Wikipedia by inserting and re-inserting phishing links that send victims to imitations of popular dark web markets where they unwittingly enter their credentials and then lose control of their accounts, bitcoins and even their dark web identities. But phishing has multiple faces, and the threat extends far beyond emails. politicians whose world turned upside as a result of spearphishing during the 2016 campaign. Phishing is a hacker’s most effective weapon - just ask the U.S.
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