RE: Discovering and Stopping Phishing/Scam Attacks
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Even if you don't get your web host to do it themselves if you use PHP you can easily make simple scripts that perform the same function. I'd imagine you could do the same with ASP. net if you use that instead. -----Original Message----- From: Lode Vermeiren [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2005 3:51 PM To: [email protected]; [email protected]; Randy Subject: Re: Discovering and Stopping Phishing/Scam Attacks On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 [email protected] wrote: > > As we have all noticed, there has increase in the number of phishing/scam > > attempts via e-mail that appear to be legitimate. Most of > > and e-mails do not host their own images. From what I have seen, more > > often than not, these e-mails and websites link directly to images hosted > > by the legitimate website. > > Since they are linking to the images hosted on the site they are cloning > > -- the banking/e-commerce website could just rename their images on > > their own webpage every so often (and update their webpages accordingly). Op di, 26-04-2005 te 13:13 -0700, schreef Randy: > Seems like a maintenance nightmare waiting to happen. > > ~randy Renaming the files would indeed be a maintenance nightmare, but I don't see a reason why the webserver hosting the image can't do a referrer check, and only serve the real images if they are being loaded from the real domain. In all other cases they could return a "THIS IS A FAKE PAGE" image, or perhaps even some shock site[1] Lode [1] please don't follow any of the links on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shock_site You have been warned. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Test Your IDS Is your IDS deployed correctly? Find out quickly and easily by testing it with real-world attacks from CORE IMPACT. Go to http://www.securityfocus.com/sponsor/CoreSecurity_focus-ids_040708 to learn more. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Test Your IDS Is your IDS deployed correctly? Find out quickly and easily by testing it with real-world attacks from CORE IMPACT. Go to http://www.securityfocus.com/sponsor/CoreSecurity_focus-ids_040708 to learn more. --------------------------------------------------------------------------