You want to pay up your credit card account immediately,
as you just remembered that today is the due date.
After getting on to your bank's website by carefully
typing in the URL, you put in your account number
and password, go to the credit card payment section
and perform the transaction. Satisfied with completing
a task in time, you move onto other chores, till you
find out that the website you visited and punched
in confidential financial information was in fact
a fake one!
Security experts at MicroWorld
Technologies inform that 'DNSChanger.eg' is a
high risk potential Trojan that can redirect users
to spoofed websites of leading banks, credit card
firms and online shops.
DNSChanger.eg works by corrupting the process of
translating a domain name to the actual website. When
a user types in the web address 'jpmorgan.com', made
up of text-strings, it needs to be translated to an
IP address like '192.220.34.11', as the Internet understands
only numerical info.
Now, the smart Trojan is designed to change the 'NameServer'
Registry key value to a fraudulent IP address. So,
even if the victim types in the right URL, he will
be taken to a scam website that robs him of his identity
and finances in broad day light.
"Newer Methods of 'Pharming' are getting truly
sophisticated, threatening the very fundamentals on
which the world does business online," observes
Govind Rammurthy, CEO,
MicroWorld Technologies. "If Phishing requires
you to be lured through emails that lead you to imposter
websites, this one needs none of that sort. While
the unsuspecting user continues an online transaction
in good faith, he could be playing directly into the
hands of a remote fraudster. It's like creating a
make-believe world to fine perfection and then looting
everything that a victim has."
In yet another mode of Pharming, attackers work by
manipulating and corrupting a DNS Server itself. In
here they poison the DNS cache, so that regular website
requests are answered with fraudulent ones, affecting
a large number of computers in a particular geographical
area.
"While coordinated efforts are required among
Banks, Other Financial Companies, ISPs, Security Firms
and governmental authorities to curb these criminal
networks, users can do their best by safeguarding
their personal computers with up-to-date protection
from Viruses and other intruders. As for enterprises,
we know that more and more business critical operations
are moving to the Internet and protecting office workstations
has long become a basic necessity in Information Integrity
and Security," points out Govind Rammurthy.
MicroWorld produces the world's most advanced AntiVirus
and Content Security Solutions, growing at the fastest
rate in the world today.
'eScan' from MicroWorld offers comprehensive Virus
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