New phishing tactic falling through the net

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Tue Feb 22 11:15:33 GMT 2005


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Interesting one, hadn't thought of that trick. I'll have a think.

John Wilcock wrote:

> How about this one, Julian?
> (adapted from a phish I just received, detected by ClamAV as it happens)
>
>> <a href="http://www.example.com/">
>> <map name="mymap"><area coords="0,0,100,100" shape="rect"
>> href="http://www.phisher.com/"></map>
>> <img src="whatever" usemap="#mymap"></a>
>

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