{"id":1314,"date":"2007-12-21T20:59:56","date_gmt":"2007-12-21T13:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=1314"},"modified":"2007-12-21T22:10:40","modified_gmt":"2007-12-21T15:10:40","slug":"phishers-are-using-shorter-urls-for-malicious-sites-in-a-bid-to-lend-an-air-of-legitimacy-to-threatening-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/computer\/phishers-are-using-shorter-urls-for-malicious-sites-in-a-bid-to-lend-an-air-of-legitimacy-to-threatening-links\/","title":{"rendered":"Phishers are using shorter URLs for malicious sites in a bid to lend an air of legitimacy to threatening links."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com\/IBM-to-buy-ISS-for-1.3-billion\/2100-7355_3-6108538.html?tag=st.nl\" title=\"IBM to buy ISS for $1.3 billion -- Wednesday, Aug 23, 2006\">Internet Security Services, IBM&#8217;s online-security division<\/a>, claims to have noticed a significant drop in the number of characters used by fraudsters in their phishing URLs.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.iss.net\/archive\/ShorterPhishingURLs.html\">post on ISS&#8217;s Frequency X blog<\/a> stated that &#8220;analysts have been observing host names within fraudulent phishing URLs consistently arrive with lengths of between 30 and 37 characters&#8221;; observers &#8220;have noted a significant change&#8221; as phishing host names have shrunk down to an average of only 17 characters in recent weeks.<\/p>\n<p>For more info <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com\/Shorter-URLs-help-phishers-hook-more-victims\/2100-7349_3-6221092.html?tag=txt.alert.hed\">click here <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Internet Security Services, IBM&#8217;s online-security division, claims to have noticed a significant drop in the number of characters used by fraudsters in their phishing URLs. A post on ISS&#8217;s Frequency X blog stated that &#8220;analysts have been observing host names within fraudulent phishing URLs consistently arrive with lengths of between 30 and 37 characters&#8221;; observers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,35,29,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer","category-scams-and-hoaxes","category-spam","category-spyware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}