RSA Identifies New Phishing Threat

´Security solutions provider RSA has issued a warning about a new phishing technique called Smart Redirection Attack.

This type of attack is designed to ensure potential phishing victims always link to a live website. So far there have been two separate attacks detected on two different banks - one based in the UK and the other in Canada.

For a Smart Redirection Attack, the fraudster creates a number of similar phishing websites based at different locations
All of the emails received by consumers contain links to web sites that direct the victim to an IP address that hosts the "smart redirector".

» ITNews.com - Staff Writers, CRN - 07-07-2006