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Story: Banks under fire as phishing attacks accelerate

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Image Leeching only temp fix

I agree that tracing image leeching (where the phishing sites are linking to images on the real site) would help banks to get some phishing sites closed down. I am not too shocked at the banks lack of response. Unless the message gets to the right people it is likely to be not understood and ignored. They should do better.

This would only be a temporary fix though as the phishing sites will start downloading the images and re-hosting it themselves. However, it would me more work for them and may shut down a lot of sites until they figure out what is going on.

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