What is a Pharming Attack?
Though Pharming attacks are not as well known, they are a serious threat to unsuspecting individuals. The main threat to Pharming attacks is that they are extremely difficult to detect and can be perpetrated in many different ways. A pharming attack is where a user attempts to browse to a legitimate web site and is instead redirect to a malicious web site that impersonates the real site. Ultimately allowing the malicious web site to steal information entered by the unsuspecting user. There are three primary forms of Pharming attacks.
