Phishers hack eBay
August 4th, 2005
A flaw on the eBay site has allowed hackers to redirect the sign-on process to a phishing site. This means that you could log in from a genuine eBay webpage and then be redirected to fake site which would ask for your information to confirm that you are the genuine account holder or whatever. This is a step up from being directed to a fake website to log into eBay in the first place. So, if you get an email which has a link that takes you to eBay, delete that email. This latest effort makes it even more difficult for the users to detect a phishing attack as the user is being taken to a genuine page and then to the hacker’s website. What other ways will they find to rob us?
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Lets hope that they don’t try that with the banking sites… Must be once a week that I get an email “from my bank” asking me to log in and confirm my information. Technology is great… when it works securely. I may have to resort back to hiding my money under my mattress. Please note, I have a 70lb Pitlab
I have to say that is about as nasty as it gets! They must be using a html form embeded in an item that’s “For Sale” somehow.. Gah!