Re: Recent rise in Phishing attacks

From: Penetration Test (penetration.test_at_gmail.com)
Date: 10/08/04

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    Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 13:44:32 +0800
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    Hi,

    According to http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/08/19/diy_phishing/ ,
    there is a phishing DIY kit, probably someone is using the kit to
    establish those phishing sites.

    On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 15:20:58 -0700, Hubbard, Dan <dhubbard@websense.com> wrote:
    > Starting Sunday afternoon (Oct 5, 04) we are currently seeing a massive
    > increase in the amount of phishing sites (more than a 10 times increase
    > than our regular load). There is not one particular brand being targeted
    > but several. The one piece of commonality is that these almost all are
    > being hosted on IP addresses and mostly outside of the US. It appears
    > as though some sort of toolkit maybe available and/or a set of tools
    > that are utilizing a large bot network for this.
    >
    > Does anyone have any evidence or other information to share regarding
    > this?
    >
    > _______________________________
    > Dan Hubbard
    > Security & Technology Research
    > Websense Security Labs
    > http://www.WebsenseSecurityLabs.com
    > 

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