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Insights into the clustering and reuse of phone numbers in scam emails

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- Cisco Talos has recently started to collect and gather intelligence around phone numbers within emails as an additional indicator of compromise (IOC). In this blog, we discuss new insights into in-the-wild phone number reuse in scam emails. - According to Talos’ observations, the ease of API-driven provisioning makes a few VoIP providers the preferred tool for attackers, allowing for high-volume...
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