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Drive-By Pharming In the Wild

Posted by kdawson on from the just-change-the-default-password-already dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Symantec reported Tuesday that the first case of drive-by pharming, in which a hacker changes the DNS settings on a customer's broadband router or wireless access point and directs the link to a fraudulent Web site, has been observed in the wild. The first drive-by pharming attack has been observed against a Mexican bank: 'It's associated with an e-mail pretending to be from a legitimate Spanish-language e-greeting card company, Gusanito.com,' says Symantec Security Response principal researcher Zulfikar Ramzan. Inside the e-mail is an HTML image tag but instead of displaying images, it sends a request to the home router to tamper with it."

6 of 205 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Pfft by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It's to prevent crapflooding, not to save resources.

  2. Re:Heath Ledger was a young male like most of us. by networkBoy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I won't believe this till netcraft confirms it...

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  3. Re:Pfft by repvik · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    It's freaking annoying though. It should start as a low delay and grow instead. That way they can prevent crapflooding *and* annoy less users...

  4. Who is the Market? by hardburn · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Somebody must be buying from these companies, or they wouldn't be trying such abusive advertisement tactics. Who are these people? Are they smart enough to breed? And if so, what argument is there against sterilizing them?

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  5. Re:Fankly, I'm suprised by BeanThere · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    That would be clever if it 'were/was not' the case that "was" has actually become an acceptable substitute for the subjunctive form "were".

  6. Re:Pfft by TooMuchToDo · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Or base it off of karma. User with high karma? No wait to post. I hate having tons of comments sitting in Firefox tabs, and going through one by one hitting submit every few minutes.