CyberAttack - Social Engineering - Pharming

• Pharming 网络嫁接
  • overview

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Pharming 网络嫁接

overview

• Similar in nature to e-mail phishing,

• pharming seeks to obtain personal information by domain spoofing.
  • e-mail phishing: been spammed with malicious e-mail requests for you to visit spoof Web sites which appear egitimate.
  • scam people one at a time with an e-mail
  • Pharming: ‘poisons’ a DNS server, infuse false information into the DNS server, resulting in a user’s request being redirected elsewhere.
  • allows the scammers to target large groups of people at one time through domain spoofing.
• Your browser, however will show you are at the correct Web site, which makes pharming more difficult to detect.