Today I'm going to show you how hackers doing phishing attack by using Data URI technique. Before going to read the article, I recommends you to read about Phishing for better understanding of this technique. Phishing by data URI is a simple technique used to steal login credentials and personal information from the users. Usually, phishing website needs a host, but by using “Phishing By Data URI” technique an attacker don't need a host to carry out an attack. In this technique, attacker uses a simple URI scheme to present media content in the web browser without the actual data on the Internet. The URI scheme is given below : data :[<mediatype>][;base64];<data> For Example : data:text/html;base64,RWZmZWN0SGFja2luZw== In the above example, I used base64 encoding to obfuscate the data from the victims. Otherwise, it looks like this : data:text/html;,EffectHacking Hackers with malicious intent can spoof an entire web-page using this technique a...
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