Re:Comcast is injecting 400+ lines of JavaScript into web pages
by userbinator on Sunday December 10, 2017 @12:18PM
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As more Comcast customers receive JS-based notices like these injected into their normal web traffic, any enterprising jerk can clone the message, change the links to point to their own phishing site, change or omit the phone number, and snag a whole bunch of unsuspecting Comcast customers.
To be a devil's advocate, Comcast customers have been phished before via email too:
To be a devil's advocate, Comcast customers have been phished before via email too:
http://technology.pitt.edu/news-and-alerts/phishing-alert-em...
...and then there's the various phone and even door-to-door scams, but I'd consider the latter to be much harder to do.