Phishing gives way to pharming
Wired reports on the upsurge in pharming. Pharmimg has been around a while, but has apparently assumed new proportions of late. This could be an attempt to shock the web world into spending money on somebodys anti-pharming gizmo, but it does appear to be something worth looking at.
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the latest cyberswindle, pharming, threatens to reel in entire schools of victims.
The most alarming pharming threat is via DNS poisoning. And this sums up neatly what it is
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"Phishing is to pharming what a guy with a rod and a reel is to a Russian trawler. Phishers have to approach their targets one by one. Pharmers can scoop up many victims in a single pass," said Chris Risley, president and chief
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this past weekend would-be pharmers attempted to exploit a known vulnerability in Symantec's firewall, redirecting some users from eBay, Google and weather.com to three sites that attempted to install spyware on visitors' computers.
No doubt some TW readers who know more about DNS poisoning than I do can enlighten us further as to the seriousness of the threat.
- Y! MyWeb