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How Phishers Think, Act, and Make a Profit

Posted by timothy on from the good-laugh-at-your-expense dept.

whitehartstag writes with a write up of "the excellent session at Black Hat that detailed 'how phishers create sites, share info and code, and basically are lazy.' They store their stolen data 'on websites that they have hacked into, or on [publically available] sites like guestbooks. And even worse, they are not protecting their stolen data ... which means that all one needs to do to find this info is to reverse engineer a real phisher's website, look at their PHP script, and find out where they are storing the data.'"

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  1. Hey! by Vectronic · · Score: 5, Funny

    "...[Phishers] basically are lazy"

    I'm lazy, maybe I could be a phisher king...

    "...all one needs to do to find this info is to reverse engineer a real phisher's website, look at their PHP script..."

    Shit, I instrinsically fail.

  2. The Phisher Job Description by Nymz · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...does involve 'securing' data, just not in the way you think it does.

  3. Re:Hmm by Eudial · · Score: 5, Funny

    The next logical step would be hackers hacking hacker-hacking hackers.

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  4. Old Hat by Pandare · · Score: 5, Funny

    This article is an old Trope. In fact, Confucius once said: "Give a man a fish, he eats once. Teach a man to phish and he gets a post in /."

    1. Re:Old Hat by Yvan256 · · Score: 4, Funny

      Give a man fire and he'll be warm for a day. Set him on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

    2. Re:Old Hat by Darkness404 · · Score: 4, Funny

      But give a man Ramen Noodles and you don't have to teach him anything.

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  5. Re:Hmm by Mesa+MIke · · Score: 3, Funny

    Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.

  6. And even worse by narcberry · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...they aren't protecting it? The fact that my personal information is in the hands of people with intentions of using it, is not as bad as them not protecting it? I'd hate to imagine the kinds of people that might get their hands on my personal information!

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  7. Re:One time... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    "even who-is'd him for them in the e-mail (it appeared to be an Indian name).... I called the number on the ad... He had a thick Indian accent. Same guy? Coincidence?"

    No way that was a coincidence. I mean, how many Indians are there?

  8. Re:Hmm by Clandestine_Blaze · · Score: 3, Funny

    Oh yeah? Well I see your smelly Buffalo, and raise you a James while John had had had had had had had had had had had a better effect on the teacher

    I wish I knew about this while I was in high school and had to write boring 500 word essays. A few of these and I would be nearly done! :D

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  9. You know, this one time... by patio11 · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... I saw two white guys in a day. And was like, whoa -- are you folks following me?

    Then I saw another one. I knew it. Never trust white guys.

    -- A white guy (but just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean I'm not out to get me!)

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