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Pharming Poses Potential for Widespread Fraud

From Wired, Pharming Out-Scams Phishing: “First 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.”
See also:

  • related beSpacific cybercrime postings and from the non-profit information security organization, the Honeynet Project, Know your Enemy: Tracking Botnets
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