Hackers now target mobile users for phishing attack

Security researchers from symantec have spotted some phishing attacks that use fake WAP pages. This type of phishing is not so popular among hackers but the numbers of attacks are expected to grow with the time due to the increasing use of smartphones.
Now a days every company also design its mobile websites for mobile users and wap websites for those users whose mobile use old browser.
"Symantec has recorded phishing sites spoofing such Web pages and has monitored the trend. In June, social networking and information services brands were observed in these phishing sites," the company warns.
"Over the past six months, about 65 percent of these phishing sites spoofed brands from the banking sector, whereas 19 percent were from the e-commerce sector and the remaining were from the ISP, social networking, and information services sectors," says Symantec security expert Mathew Maniyara.
Security experts have warned in the past that mobile users are more susceptible to phishing because of the way mobile browsers display URLs. Since a phone's screen has limited space, URLs are truncated when shown in the address bar. This allows attackers to create overly long URLs in order to hide the rogue domain name.

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