Phishing, fraud, and impersonation

Pharming

Pharming is a type of online fraud where attackers use of malicious code to redirect victims to fake websites in order to steal their credentials and data. Normally, a user types in a web address and their computer sends a request to a server that sends back the correct web page. In a pharming attack, cybercriminals redirect the web traffic to a fake website that looks almost identical to the real one. DNS spoofing and malware-based pharming are two techniques used to carry out a pharming attack.