Phishing For Bank Info Without Any Pesky Malware 232
Emb3rz writes "DarkReading.com brings us news of a new approach to phishing that targets online banking sites. Here's the novel part of it: it doesn't involve any of the typical attack vectors we all know and love. Instead, it uses JavaScript from a remote page to detect if you have a banking site open, and prompts you for info via popup if you do."
Re:The Best Defense is Offense (Score:2, Funny)
Of course we would then have to send someone to Elbonia to disappear the disappearers.
In fact we could lay traps for them by disappearing people in a country where that is illegal and then see who comes after them.
Re:The Best Defense is Offense (Score:3, Funny)
Elbonia uses trenches as we cannot afford your extravagant tubes.
Re:The Best Defense is Offense (Score:4, Funny)
4. Find out that the phisers are using a proxy to bounce off of.
5. Find that proxy is some poor schmuck who got hacked.
6. Realize poor schmuck is you.
7. Boom.
Re:The Best Defense is Offense (Score:5, Funny)
There's a simple technical solution to this:
1. trace the phishing to their location
2. send a missile to that location
3. problem solved
I don't get it. Then the bad guys would have a missile. That is worse, not better.
Re:paranoia-plus... (Score:3, Funny)
dieing indeed....
Re:paranoia-plus... (Score:3, Funny)
My paranoia has led me into a practice of doing my banking by going to the bank.
You insensitive clod. How do you get there - in your gasoline powered, carbon-emitting, smog-making car? /.er would stay in his basement and do his banking on the internet and not risk having to interact with other humans.......
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