Wired News (Mar 2005)
Pharming Out-Scams Phishing
"First came phishing scams, in which con artists hooked unwary internet users one by one into compromising their personal data. Now the latest cyberswindle, pharming, threatens to reel in entire schools of victims.
Pharmers simply redirect as many users as possible from the legitimate commercial websites they'd intended to visit and lead them to malicious ones. The bogus sites, to which victims are redirected without their knowledge or consent, will likely look the same as a genuine site. But when users enter their login name and password, the information is captured by criminals."
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InternetWeek.com (Mar 2005)
Phishers Moving Away From E-mail "Lures"
"Phishing attacks were up slightly in February, the Anti-Phishing Working Group reported last week, but the trend toward even sneakier ways of scamming identities is growing quickly. "
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