Alarms sound as hackers ‘pharm’ for fresh blood

[InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>]

http://koreajoongangdaily.joinsmsn.com/news/article/Article.aspx?aid=2957904

By Sohn Hae-yong
Korea JoogAng Daily
Aug 15, 2012

The Financial Supervisory Service and the National Police Agency issued 
a warning this week about an online hacking scam dubbed “pharming,” a 
newly coined word that combines farming and phishing.

Unlike phishing, which focuses on stealing users’ personal access data 
including passwords, pharming redirects a Web site’s traffic to an 
identical-looking bogus site, even when the user types in the correct IP 
address.

It is usually carried out by e-mail, instant messaging or voice calls.

According to the FSS and the police, hackers install malware within the 
video files of recently released movies they upload on illegal 
file-sharing Web sites.

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