Insert link facilitates phishing attacks

Gasper Zejn zejn at kiberpipa.org
Tue Nov 19 04:18:24 EST 2013


Pidgin's feature insert link can be used to launch a phishing attack, see 
attached image.

By inserting a link into description link, you can fool a more knowledgeable 
person thinking he is clicking a link to page A, when in fact the link will 
take him to page B.

kind regards,
Gašper Žejn
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: phishing.png
Type: image/png
Size: 5051 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://pidgin.im/pipermail/devel/attachments/20131119/8a32c4d0/attachment-0001.png>


More information about the Devel mailing list