THE Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) warned Filipinos against the sudden resurgence online of the social media "new Friendster" as it is being used for phishing.

In a statement issued by the DICT's National Computer Emergency Response Team (DICT-NCERT), they said that based on their analysis of the IP address hosting the new Friendster, it showed that it "had previous reports about phishing, brute force and DDoS attacks, hacking and host exploitations."

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