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Phishing With SuperBait February 2008 | Permalink

Security researchers have all the fun, like making up the pun-ny names for the new exploits they discover or detect. Case in point: “Phishing with superbait” is an increasing phenomenon in which cyber thieves take over an actual corporate Website using cross-site scripting, says WhiteHat Security founder and CTO Jeremiah Grossman. Cross-site scripting errors remain the most common vulnerability on financial services Websites, Grossman says.

Though they aren’t as clever as Grossman in the naming, security vendor Trend Micro confirms in its 2007 Threat Report and 2008 Forecast that “hackers are intensifying their attacks on legitimate Websites,” as the number of compromised legitimate Websites is slowly outnumbering malicious ones created by cyber criminals.

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