Chennai, Mar 11: A warning about a new phishing
attack, a form of criminal activity on internet of fraudulently
acquiring financial data and passwords, known as "smart
redirection attack" was issued here today by a leading
internet security firm.
The RSA Anti-Fraud Command Centre (AFCC) in a release
said that this newly-identified type of attack is designed to
ensure that potential phishing victims are always linked 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," the AFCC said.
The term phishing comes from the use of increasingly
sophisticated lures to use email as a bait to "fish" for
passwords and financial information such as credit cards and
social security numbers to commit financial frauds.
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