Security experts are now concerned about a new Internet-related fraud known as "Pharming" and which aims to fool online users through a virus that alters the behavior of Internet browsers so that when a user logs on a banking site he is redirected to a fake site.
"Pharming is probably where phishing was 12 months ago," MX Logic's chief technical officer Scott Chasing told Bank Technology News magazine.
Last year there was such a virus that infiltrated users of the e-gold.com system that allows account holders to trade electronic currency backed by gold bullion.
