URL obfuscation-Phishing Attacks
Link based tricks are commonly played upon as they are relatively easy to execute. It has been noticed that these kind of phishing attacks were extensively executed when this Internet threat was in its infancy stage. Given below is a list of some of such tricks with appropriate examples explaining how an attacker can use such links to trick the end user: Using Strings – Uses a credible sounding text string within the URLExample: http://XX.XX.43.102/ebay/account_update/now.phpNote : First two octates of the IP address have been hidden due to security reasons. However in a real time scenario this will point towards [...]
Categories: Internet Security Tags: phishing, url manipulation, URL masking, URL obfuscation
