Re: Re: RSA HAVE CRACKED PHISHING, NO SERIOUSLY

[n3td3v <n3td3v () gmail com>]

But do you remmeber back to the Make love not spam saga? Yeah, the big
players tried to "attack" the bad guys and look were they ended up. You, by
attacking anything, forwhatever reason, with the same method as the
attacker, could land you in jail. While with your attack you may lock up
phishers in coordination with banks, the phishers lawyers could also claim
by law, that the anti-phishing site was also breaking the law by flooding a
database, even if the database is malicious or otherwise legitmate,

On 3/31/06, Steven <steven () lovebug org> wrote:
> Well I think they took a pretty neat and somewhat unique approach to the
> whole thing.  I don't think the claim to have thought of some
> groundbreaking
> perfect solution to stop phishers.  However, they are combing through over
> a
> billion e-mails a day and looking for a phishing sites.  They've tied
> themselves into some top vendors and are working to get the sites shut
> down.
> They are actually making calls and sending e-mails that have been
> translated
> appropriately.  On top of that they are flooding the sites with bogus
> information.  How exactly they are doing that.. I don't know.  Are they
> using different sessions and IP addresses for each bogus request they
> send?
> Are they typing in gibberish or stuff that appears completely legit?  As
> many of us know, credit card numbers can instantly be checked to see if
> they
> are even a valid number before you even go through the process of
> verifying
> expiration, zip code, cvv, or anything else.  Is this company actually
> taking credit card numbers that could potentiallity be legit account
> numbers
> and inserting them?  If not then it would be only take seconds to sort
> through hundreds of fake and real account numbers.
>
> Anyway -- I am not sure how they are doing everything, but they are taking
> a
> better approach than many.  Maybe some of the boneheads lurking about this
> mailing list and reply back and let us know if they've been thwarted by
> this
> company in any way. :-)
>
> Steven
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "ducki3" <duckie37 () gmail com>
> To: <full-disclosure () lists grok org uk>
> Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 5:04 PM
> Subject: [Full-disclosure] Re: RSA HAVE CRACKED PHISHING, NO SERIOUSLY
>
>
> > In any case, it's clear that the person who posted that response has *no
> > idea*
> > how most bank's anti-fraud systems work.
> >
> > First off, the phishers *can't* just run through all the data they've
> > gotten
> > in just a few seconds, unless they distributed the work across a bunch
> of
> > botnet
> > zombies - hits for more than a few dozen different accounts from the
> same
> > IP
> > in the same timespan are suspicious at the very least.
> >
> > Secondly, the phishers can currently usually be sure that the victims
> have
> > given them reasonably good data (unless the victim is a dweeb who can't
> > enter
> > their DoB or account number correctly).  On the other hand, if the
> phished
> > data
> > has been polluted by 90% bad data, then only 1 of 10 attempted
> > transactions
> > will succeed - and the fact that they're trying lots of different bad
> data
> > will
> > again hopefully trigger an alert.  If you only succeed every 10th time,
> > and you
> > get locked out after 3 attempts with different bad data, it's going to
> > take you
> > a lot longer to figure out which ones are good and which ones are
> bad....
>
>
> Consider that some of these fake accounts could also be used as Honey
> keys.
> They would of course have to work in conjunction with the banks /
> sites to utilize this.
>
> It would be rather difficult for a phisher to sort through thousands
> of Id's when IP addresses keep getting shut off based on a Honey Key.
>
> You would have to own a lot of BOTs and a lot of patience.
>
>
> Duck
>
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