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Sophisticated phishing targets Yahoo users

 
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 1:55 pm    Post subject: Sophisticated phishing targets Yahoo users Reply with quote
It records their username and password when they log in

A new phishing method is targeting users of Yahoo Inc.'s Web site by recording their username and password while logging them into a legitimate area of the portal, according to Websense Inc., a Web security software firm.

Users receive an instant message or e-mail purporting to be from a friend wanting to show photos from a vacation or birthday party. The message has a link to the phishing site, which records the user's ID and password while forwarding the user to the real Yahoo Photos site. "It would be difficult for the user to know they'd actually been phished," said Ross Paul, Websense product manager for Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
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