In contrast to ‘Phishing' which is when fraudsters lure people to their websites using scam emails, ‘Pharming' is when a fraudster, or a ‘Pharmer' in this case, creates false websites in the hope that people will visit their websites by mistake. People can sometimes visit false websites through mistyping a website address, or occasionally a fraudster will try to attack a website and redirect its internet traffic to their own websites. The ‘Pharmer' will then try to obtain your personal details when you enter them into a false website. The websites can look very realistic, but there will be subtle differences between them and the real thing. Always make sure to check whether a website is secure.
A fast-spreading online scam that directs multiple users to phony sites where the pharmers harvest their passwords and other personal information. Pharming targets multiple users at once, while phishing targets one user at a time.
Similar in nature to e-mail phishing, pharming seeks to obtain personal or private (usually financial related) information through domain spoofing. Rather than being spammed with malicious and mischievous e-mail requests for you to visit spoof Web sites which appear legitimate, pharming 'poisons' a DNS server by infusing false information into the DNS server, resulting in a user's request being redirected elsewhere. Your browser, however will show you are at the correct Web site, which makes pharming a bit more serious and more difficult to detect. Phishing attempts to scam people one at a time with an e-mail while pharming allows the scammers to target large groups of people at one time through domain spoofing.
Refers to the redirection of an individual to an illegitimate website through technical means. For example, an Internet banking customer, who routinely logs in to his online banking website, may be redirected to an illegitimate site instead of accessing his or her bank's website.
Pharming describes the situation in which a hacker exploits weaknesses in domain name server (DNS) software to acquire the domain name for a site and redirect traffic to it to his or her fake site.
Software that redirects Internet browsers to a predetermined location rather than the one expected by the user. Similar to browser hijacking. more.
Pharming is when someone changes the Internet lookup system to redirect your browser to a fake site to obtain personal or private information. Your browser will show you a fake Website that appears to look like the real Website, which makes pharming a bit more serious and difficult to detect.
A fraudulent practice that seeks to obtain personal information by misdirecting users to spoof sites without their knowledge or consent.
When fraudsters redirect net users from legitimate to fake websites.
An Internet scamming tactic that routes visitors from a legitimate Web site to a fraudulent copy of that site, where programs quickly get busy collecting passwords, cards and other personal data. Visitors are never the wiser.
( farming) - Intense form of phishing involving spyware. Users type in a Web address and are unknowingly redirected to a fake site that looks similar but harvests personal information.
This has nothing to with plowing fields, harvesting crops, or raising chickens. Think of pharming as phishing on steroids. While a phisherman can reel in a few unsuspecting victims, a pharmer can harvest bushels of information with a little more tech savvy and a little less effort. Pharmers can hijack part of the system that routes traffic on the Internet, redirecting traffic from a legitimate websites to the crook’s own look-alike site to harvest the identifying information from unsuspecting customers—Social Security Numbers, passwords, etc. (For more on the technicalities of how this is done, see the article "Phishing, Pharming, and Other Scams" in the December 2005 issue of GPSolo magazine, volume 22, number 8.)
A web based attack where the attacker redirects a user to a spoofed Web site by 'poisoning' the local domain name server (DNS).
A scamming practice in which malicious code is installed on a personal computer or server, misdirecting users to fraudulent Web sites without their knowledge or consent.
A form of domain name spoofing that results in users believing they are on a genuine site with the correct URL only to be diverted to a scam site.
Pharming is the exploitation of a vulnerability in the DNS server software that allows a hacker to acquire the Domain Name for a site, and to redirect traffic to that website to another web site. DNS servers are the machines responsible for resolving internet names into their real addresses - the "signposts" of the internet. This type of attack involves Trojan horse, worms or other technologies that attack the browser address bar, thus redirecting the user to a fraudulent Web site when the user types in a legitimate address.
Like phishing, pharming preys on socially conditioned patterns of human behavior to coax sensitive information from victims. Whereas phishers masquerade as legitimate organizations, pharmers hijack sites' domain names to redirect traffic elsewhere. In this way, visitors to an online banking site can be channeled to a mirror site and prompted to provide personal data that crackers can collect and use.
A method of redirecting Internet traffic to a fake Web site through domain spoofing. This involves creating a fake DNS record for a real Web site, typically that of a bank or other commercial enterprise. The fake DNS redirects traffic from the real Web site to the fraudulent site, intending to gather customers' personal information. For example, when a user types the URL of a bank into their browser, the browser does a DNS lookup to determine the IP address of the bank's Web site. DNS servers store a list of domains and their corresponding IP addresses. Hackers insert false information on the DNS server, so that browsers looking up bank's the IP address are redirected to the fake IP address. On the visitor's browser, the site appears legitimate.
Pharming is the exploitation of a vulnerability in Domain Name Service (DNS) server software that allows a hacker to redirect that website's traffic to another website.
Pharming (pronounced farming) is a scam technique that is similar to phishing. It is an attempt to steal personal information using false web sites. Pharming attacks seed false information on Internet DNS servers that provide location information. The result is that individuals are directed to web sites to seem to be genuine, but are actually false.
An online scam which redirects multiple web users to phony sites where criminals can capture passwords and other sensitive data.
Manually changing the IP address of a record on a DNS server so that calls to a particular URL are diverted to the attacker's Web site.
A pharming attack is largely the same as a phishing attack except that the e-mail component is removed. Rather than using an e-mail in trying to deceive the end user into going to a web site that looks legitimate but in fact isn't the pharming attack redirects the user to the false web site when the victim attempts to access their existing accounts. This redirection is typically accomplished by the placement of a trojan program onto the victim's computer.
Pharming allows the hacker to redirect traffic from that website to another web site by exploiting the vulnerabilities in the DNS server.
Pharming is the term for the effect of the deployment of Trojans either as keyloggers or malware capable of hijacking internet banking sessions, as criminals 'harvest' the information provided by these programs.
An attack on a domain name's DNS server that allows the attacker to acquire control of the destination of the domain name for a Web site. The attacker then redirects traffic trying to reach that site to another location.
It involves Trojans programs, worms, or other virus technologies that attack the Internet browser address bar and is much more sophisticated than phishing. When users type in a valid URL they are redirected to the criminals' websites instead of the intended valid website.
