Phishers Build Deceptive Links with DNS Wildcards

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday March 7, 2005 @01:43PM from the pointy-pointy-then-annointy dept.

1sockchuck writes "In the continuing evolution of the phisher, the latest scams are crafting deceptive email links that include a bank's URL, but send victims to a phishing spoof site. The phishers are combining wildcard DNS, URL encoding and redirection services to construct the URLs. Netcraft has examples of emails that presented barclays.co.uk in the URL but sent clicks to a spoofed page at a server in Moscow. A DNS cache poisoning attack over the weekend also highlights the potential use of DNS tricks in 'pharming' (phishing using redirection rather than bait emails)."

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Re:Stupid by Anonymous Coward · 2005-03-07 13:57 · Score: 0, Offtopic

You, sir, know nothing about the internet. And are stupid in general.
Re:FYI: by tepples · 2005-03-07 14:22 · Score: 0, Offtopic

but if you try to type _anything_.ORG in Windows you're likely to get a General Protection Fault

Mozilla 1.7.x for Windows and Mozilla Firefox 1.0 for Windows display slashdot.org just fine. Even IE 6 can get to slashdot.org without problems. What did you install before this problem started happening?