Microsoft Warns of Web Browser Phishing Trick Involving Overlapping Browser Windows
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Microsoft has this week issued an advisory on a new trick which phishers are playing with users’ web browsers, including Internet Explorer, although other web browsers can be manipulated as well. The trick involves the use of overlapping browser windows which are automatically opened by a site which the user visits.
The way that it works is this: you visit a website - unbeknownst to you a phisher’s website - and that site redirects you to a real, legitimate site. So let’s say that you get an email with a link to YourBank.com, but it’s really a link to ThatPhisher.com. However, ThatPhisher.com invisibly redirects you to the real YourBank.com website, so what you see is your bank’s real, legitimate website.
However, at the same time…
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