{"id":2121,"date":"2006-03-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/2006\/03\/08\/phishing-fraudsters-aim-to-outpace-site-shutdowns\/"},"modified":"2021-12-30T11:40:43","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T11:40:43","slug":"phishing-fraudsters-aim-to-outpace-site-shutdowns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/2006\/03\/08\/phishing-fraudsters-aim-to-outpace-site-shutdowns\/","title":{"rendered":"Phishing fraudsters aim to outpace site shutdowns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a move designed to ensure potential phishing victims always link to a live website, fraudsters have developed so-called &#8220;smart redirection&#8221; attacks.  Smart redirection attacks involve creating a number of similar phishing websites based at different locations.  Emails that form the basis of phishing attacks pose as security messages from online banks in an attempt to dupe a tiny proportion of recipients who happen to be customers of the bank, into visiting a bogus site and handing over account information.  According to the Anti-Phishing Working Group, almost 50,000 phishing websites were created last year, with more than 7,000 appearing in December alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bogus emails that form the basis of phishing attacks contain URLs that direct the victim to a single IP address, which hosts the so-called &#8216;smart redirector&#8217;.  When the potential victim clicks on the link, the redirector checks all related phishing websites, identifying which sites are still live before redirecting the user to one of them.<\/p>\n<p>RSA Cyota senior product manager Andrew Moloney said: &#8220;As anti-phishing vendors become more adept at shutting down phishing websites, inevitably the fraudsters are looking at ways to minimise the effect this has on their hit rates.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Anti-Phishing Working Group, almost 50,000 phishing websites were created last year, with more than 7,000 appearing in December alone.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2006\/03\/08\/smart_redirect_phish_attack\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trends"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4608,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2121\/revisions\/4608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}