Instances of Pharming
In January 2005, the domain name for a large New York ISP, Panix, was hijacked to point to a website in Australia. No financial losses are known.
In January 2008, Symantec reported a drive-by pharming incident, directed against a Mexican bank, in which the DNS settings on a customer's home router were changed after receipt of an e-mail that appeared to be from a legitimate Spanish-language greeting-card company.
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