Beware “Tabnapping” – a new kind of Phishing scam

Beware “Tabnapping” – a new kind of Phishing scam

“Tabnapping” relies on the user believing that it is impossible for the content of a tab to change while you’re not looking. You may click on a link in Twitter, Facebook or a “sponsored link” in Google which will load a genuine webpage that delivers the content it promises. If you then click away from that site, leaving it open in a “tab” whilst viewing another website, the content of the original tab will change to a fake log-in page impersonating one of the websites you visit most often, be that Facebook, Gmail, Hotmail or your online banking account. You then scan back through your tabs and believe you’ve left the site open and have been logged out, so you log back in again.