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Answer» Quote New Phishing Attack Targets Online Banking Sessions With Phony Popups 'In-session phishing' the LATEST Web-based method for phishers to steal users' banking credentials Jan 13, 2009 \| 12:30 PM By Kelly Jackson Higgins DarkReading Researchers have discovered a SOPHISTICATED, new method of phishing that targets users while they are banking online -- SENDING phony popup messages pretending to be from their banks. The so-called "in-session phishing" attack prompts the victim to retype his username and password for the banking site because the online banking session "has expired," for instance, via a popup that purports to be from the victim's bank site, according to researchers at Trusteer, which TODAY published an advisory (PDF) on their findings about the potential for such a phishing attack. Click link for more of the story http://www.darkreading.com/security/attacks/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=212900161

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New Phishing Attack Targets Online Banking Sessions With Phony Popups
'In-session phishing' the LATEST Web-based method for phishers to steal users' banking credentials

Jan 13, 2009 | 12:30 PM
By Kelly Jackson Higgins
DarkReading

Researchers have discovered a SOPHISTICATED, new method of phishing that targets users while they are banking online -- SENDING phony popup messages pretending to be from their banks.

The so-called "in-session phishing" attack prompts the victim to retype his username and password for the banking site because the online banking session "has expired," for instance, via a popup that purports to be from the victim's bank site, according to researchers at Trusteer, which TODAY published an advisory (PDF) on their findings about the potential for such a phishing attack.

Click link for more of the story
http://www.darkreading.com/security/attacks/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=212900161

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