bugtraq - Re: IE URL Issue Being Used In Phishing In the Wild [USBank]

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Message-ID: <40A650D9.325.1FD24BA6@localhost>
Date: Sat, 15 May 2004 17:18:17 +1200
From: Nick FitzGerald <nick@...us-l.demon.co.uk>
To: bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
Subject: Re: IE URL Issue Being Used In Phishing In the Wild [USBank]


"Drew Copley" <dcopley@...e.com> wrote:

<<snip>>
> The webpage attempts to throw up a little url bar of it's own
> which covers IE's url bar. This allows a pretty convincing spoof
> job to happen. 
> 
> The pop up looks just like IE's url bar, and it is even selectable.
> 
> This does not work in Netscape.

This was also reported at antiphishing.org:

http://www.antiphishing.org/phishing_archive/05-13-
04_US_Bank_(Found_error).html

and it sounds similar to an earlier incident reported there in late 
March:

   http://www.antiphishing.org/news/03-31-04_Alert-FakeAddressBar.html

> It is very similiar to Malware's issues of late. 

Sorry -- I'm going to have to ask you to expand on that (perhaps I 
missed something from http-equiv?).


Regards,

Nick FitzGerald