New entry in the TSC: Script in the middle

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Posted By: Sorin Mustaca October 16, 2010

Thanks to Virus Bulletin, we have now a new entry in The Spammers’ Compendium:

Script in the middle
UO!Script in the Middle!JavaScript

14 October 2010
Description

The email has an HTML document attached to it that contanis a for. Clicking submit will POST the user’s data to a website controlled by the crooks, which automatically and invisible redirects to a legitimate website. See also The Responsibility Transfer.

Example

The original article with all the juicy details can be found in Avira Techblog: http://techblog.avira.com/2010/09/08/phishing-getting-verified/en/


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Sorin Mustaca
Sorin Mustaca, (ISC)2 CSSLP, CompTIA Security+ and Project+, is working since year 2000 in the IT Security industry and worked between 2003-2014 for Avira as Product Manager for the known products used by over 100 million users world-wide. Today he is an independent IT Security Consultant focusing on Cybersecurity, secure software development and security for IoT and Automotive. He is also running his personal blog Sorin Mustaca on Cybersecurity and is the author of the free eBook Improve your security .
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