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Recognizing Flash-Based Phishing Risks Targeting PayPal Users

Calendar Jan 07, 2007 • User Avatar Anthony Pell
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security measures internet fraud web threats phishing attacks flash phishing payal imitation
We've now seen several phishing web sites that are using flash-based content instead of normal HTML. Probably the main to reason to do this is to try to avoid phishing toolbars that analyze page content. Two recent examples, both targeting PayPal: and .

These sites look like the real PayPal front page, but they are actually Flash recreations.

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