Phishing morphs into pharming

09:22 - Monday 31 January 2005 by Wolfgang Gruener
Source: Tom's Hardware – Keywords: phishing, morphs, into, pharming Category : Miscellaneous

Fraudsters and mischief makers are developing more insidious techniques for tricking users into visiting bogus websites. Rather than using spam to con prospective victims into clicking their way to illicit sites - so called phishing attacks - internet ne’er-do-wells are using DNS poisoning or domain hijacks to redirect users to dodgy urls.

Read the complete story . (The Register)


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