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Phishing Group Caught Stealing From Other Phishers
An anonymous reader writes "Netcraft has written about a website offering free phishing kits with one ironic twist — they all contain backdoors to steal stolen credentials from the fraudsters that deploy them.
Deliberately deceptive code inside the kits means that script kiddies are unlikely to realize that any captured credit card numbers also end up getting sent to the people who made the phishing kits. The same group was also responsible for another backdoored phishing kit used against Bank of America earlier this month."
Hey, it's open source. Information wants to be free. It's all about sharing. Why shouldn't the developer of the phishing kit get some reward from the organization that profits from repackaging his code?
If they reall wanted to do it right, they could just pool all their resources and split the rewards. They could even invite others to join in, with a BotNet@Home project. Lend your computer to the BotNet, and get a prorated share of the take from stolen credit cards credited to your PayPal account.
...phishers phish phishers... Say that five times fast.
Phish from a man and you take advantage of him for a day.
Give a man a phishing kit and you take advantage of him for a lifetime.
(of course by "man" we mean spotty-faced script kiddie, and by "lifetime" we mean until he wipes his harddisk, but proverbs are meant to be pithy and brief, not accurate.)
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I wait until I am at work to read those emails, I'm not going to risk my own computers.
hmmm....reminds me of something very familiar Oh yea....it sounds like American Business, so whats the problem?
what's the world come to when you can't trust someone selling phishing software!
If you mod me down, I will become more powerful than you can imagine....