Phishing Site Uses Katrina Kaif as Bait

In the past couple of months, pornography has been used as bait in several phishing websites. In particular, phishers used fake images of the Indian film star Katrina Kaif on a phishing site that spoofed a social networking brand. The images were modified to increase their pornographic appeal.
Katrina Kaif is one of the most popular actresses in Indian cinema today. Recently, the actress has been in the news because of the circulation of a fake adult video on the Internet. The video, claiming to be of the actress, actually features a look-a-like. The title of the phishing site displayed “Katrina Kaif’s XXX Tape,” giving the impression that the video in question was available for viewing. The scam attempts to dupe users into thinking that they can view or download the (bogus) video if they enter their login details for the legitimate social networking site. Of course, once a user enters login details, the phishers will have succeeded in harvesting them for future attacks.

Evidently, phishers have chosen the actress to create the phishing page because of her huge fan following and also because of the recent news about the XXX video clip. As with most cases of phishing linked to pornography, the phishing site included altered content to help it look more like an adult social networking site, and the site claimed that (continue reading...)