Wednesday, March 09, 2005
Phishers using DNS servers to lure victims? | CNET News.com:
"By Robert Lemos -Staff Writer, CNET News.com
Online thieves looking for personal data may be moving to more active measures by redirecting people from legitimate sites to malicious ones, security experts said this week.
The warning follows reports Friday that some people's computers were being redirected from sites such as eBay and Google to malicious Web servers that attempted to install spyware. The compromises affected 30 to 40 networks, according to Jason Lam (PDF file), incident handler for the Internet Storm Center, which tracks network threats.
'It's hard to tell how many people were impacted by this, but it wasn't very widespread,' Lam said Tuesday..."
"By Robert Lemos -Staff Writer, CNET News.com
Online thieves looking for personal data may be moving to more active measures by redirecting people from legitimate sites to malicious ones, security experts said this week.
The warning follows reports Friday that some people's computers were being redirected from sites such as eBay and Google to malicious Web servers that attempted to install spyware. The compromises affected 30 to 40 networks, according to Jason Lam (PDF file), incident handler for the Internet Storm Center, which tracks network threats.
'It's hard to tell how many people were impacted by this, but it wasn't very widespread,' Lam said Tuesday..."
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