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PhishTank
Remember this article?
ComputerWorld reports that Best Buy sold "a limited number" of infected 10.4" picture frames over the holidays. They aren’t doing anything about it, claiming that any current and up-to-date antivirus software will catch it and it is more of a nuisance than anything to worry about. Yeah, and that is just a harmless cold sore…..
According to my source: ComputerWorld, the Big Phish are using the Little Phish to collect your private data.
"Phishing kit pits wannabe scammers against pro fraudsters
Big rats, little rats compete in a Net fraud pro-am; you still loseJanuary 23, 2008 (IDG News Service) — In a twist, security researchers have discovered a group of hackers who are exploiting a new category of victims — aspiring Internet scammers.
A Moroccan group called "Mr. Brain" is offering free phishing kits on a Web site hosted in France, said Paul Mutton, Internet services developer at Netcraft, a security company in Bath, England.
The software packages make it easy to quickly set up a fraudulent Web site mimicking a known brand in order to trick people into divulging credit card details or bank account numbers. Templates for spam e-mail are also included, targeting brands such as Bank of America, eBay, PayPal and HSBC.
Mr. Brain’s Web site lists the kits and what kind of details each one is capable of collecting, such as usernames, passwords or Social Security numbers. Netcraft posted screenshots on its Web site.
But what the aspiring scammer doesn’t know is that the phishing kits are designed to send any sensitive information that’s collected back to e-mail accounts controlled by Mr. Brain, Mutton said.
"Obviously, that’s why they are offering this stuff for free," Mutton said. "I was impressed by it."
Mr. Brain hides the special e-mail function in a blend of PHP scripts, one of which is encrypted, Mutton said. Just in case someone decrypts it, Mr. Brain has written at the top of the file "Don’t need to change anything here. Created by Mr. Brain Morocco Team."
The scheme seems to be targeted at new phishers, Mutton said. Mr. Brain benefits since other wannabe scammers shoulder the cost and risk of finding an ISP (Internet Service Provider) to host the phishing site, Mutton said.
"Essentially, they’re exploiting all these novice phishers — basically getting them to do all the hard work," Mutton said.
It’s difficult to tell without further research how many of the free phishing kits linked with this latest scam are live on the Internet, but Mutton said Netcraft noticed one earlier this month targeting Bank of America.
"Clearly, these are actively being used in phishing attacks," Mutton said."
So, you still get screwed, but the Little Phish get screwed along with you as the Big Phish collect all the data. Nice. If these dirtbags would apply this much ingenuity and effort into real careers they could be as rich as Mark Zuckerberg. $3Billion of net worth and he sleeps on an air mattress in a one-bedroom apt.
The idiot who made this crapware actually was stupid enough to submit a comment on my article below including a link to another blog revealing all the crap inside his program! Go, read the blog, really, I’ll wait, it’s hysterical!
Yes, Internet, it is true, this die-hard, hard core, dedicated pc geek is coming out of the closet. I WANT a Mac Air. [crickets chirping] Left you speechless, didn’t I?
Note to Bill: You signed your slow, painful death warrant when you came out with Vista. And Office 2007, I mean, WTF! Bill? Steve will be mounting your butt to is trophy room wall very soon.
I’m usually one of the quickest adopters of anything new MS, but you really screwed the pooch with this crap. Office 2007 is absolutely miserable. I can’t find a frigging thing, and talk about bloat and excess crap!
I now use this! OpenOffice. Works GREAT! IT’S FREE!!!!, Everything is where I expect it to be, files open MUCH faster, and I don’t have to put up with all that embedded code and inflated crap. I’m a power user, Bill, I don’t have time to figure out where you’ve hidden all the features I use on a regular basis. And, for the love of all things holy, how can I once and for all turn off all the "helpful" moron features? If I want a link I’ll make it, I don’t need you to constantly change my damn document. Your products try to be "intuitive" to help the idiot at the keyboard, however, I don’t need that help and if you want to be REALLY intuitive, your products should be able to recognize I don’t want your help and stop changing everything!
And Vista, Bill, Dude, what were you thinking? Seems like you failed miserably in your attempt to emulate the Mac OS experience. The overwhelming majority of everyone I have talked to has dumped Vista to go back to XP or left the Windows experience altogether! LINUX is looking better and better everyday, and now that Dell has wised up and is giving us that option it is safe to buy from them again.
If I want a cute and bouncy OS I’ll go with a Mac, if I want power and performance without all the glitter, LINUX. That leaves you where, Bill? Remember "Clippy", Bill, remember his fate? And, "Bob", how can we forget about Bob? Were you high? Really. So embarrassing!
I rest my case…
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