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Re: Interesting spear phising attempt against IT
From: Ozzie Paez <ozpaez () SPRYNET COM>
Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 10:43:57 -0700
Brian, There is a great deal of frustration in the community over attacks from Eastern Europe, Africa and Asia. My sense is that he is reflecting frustration with those who engage in unethical attacks as opposed to wanting to take things into his own hands. From my experience, his comments are common - Ozzie Paez SSE/CISSP Denver Infragard -----Original Message----- From: Brian Allen [mailto:ballen () WUSTL EDU] Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2008 8:55 AM To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU Subject: Re: [SECURITY] Interesting spear phising attempt against IT I received an email from Tudor recently. I replied with a standard apology because at first I thought he was upset, and I just wanted to let him know I was investigating the incident. This was his reply: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Brian, No appologies are necessary from Your end.. I purely like to see these russian scumbags shut down. Best regards & have a Great Day!! Tudor -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= It sounds like he is a vigilante. Cheers, Brian Allen Network Security Analyst Washington University in St. Louis
-----Original Message----- From: Basgen, Brian [mailto:bbasgen () PIMA EDU] Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2008 1:46 PM To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU Subject: [SECURITY] Interesting spear phising attempt against IT Today we received an email from someone who graciously informed us
that
some of our student web pages had been hacked. Of course, this happens on occasion for the usual reasons (php, brute force, etc). In this
case,
the webpages were converted into online Canadian pharmacies, and any transaction would simply redirect to another domain name. The interesting thing is the fellow who told us about the hack. His email included links to the hacked web pages. It was an html email,
and
the embedded html had a few hidden links -- but many of them didn't
make
sense (case.edu and google searches against berkley.edu and hollywood.com). The most interesting thing is the domain name the email came from: tudorburden.com, which turns out to be registered to a "Tudor Burden" living in Canada. Apparently, he has lost quite a few lawsuits
regarding
fraudulent domain names: http://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/decisions/html/2005/d2005-0313.html Has anyone heard of fraudsters hacking a web page and then informing you about the hack? We are diving into logs to try to discern what his greater goal is: we've been looking for trojans and/or spyware but haven't found any yet. It is a bit strange, so I'm wondering if anyone has had experience with this kind of thing in the past? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Brian Basgen Information Security Pima Community College
Current thread:
- Interesting spear phising attempt against IT Basgen, Brian (Feb 05)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Interesting spear phising attempt against IT Hunt,Keith A (Feb 06)
- Re: Interesting spear phising attempt against IT Brian Allen (Feb 06)
- Re: Interesting spear phising attempt against IT Joel Rosenblatt (Feb 06)
- Re: Interesting spear phising attempt against IT Ozzie Paez (Feb 06)
- Re: Interesting spear phising attempt against IT Basgen, Brian (Feb 08)