RE: Discovering and Stopping Phishing/Scam Attacks

["Calder, James (EXP)" <james.calder () lmco com>]

Notice that the images on that site are actually hosted locally, rather
than being pulled from rbc.com.

And as I was refreshing the page to compare it to rbc.com, the page
disappeared, 404 FNF.

That didn't take long.

J. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Krul Thomas [mailto:Thomas.Krul () psepc-sppcc gc ca] 
Sent: April 27, 2005 10:31 AM
To: 'Alex'; incidents () securityfocus com
Subject: RE: Discovering and Stopping Phishing/Scam Attacks

I received a phishing scam email for RBC Bank literally moments ago. The
Web site is based in the Czech Republic with very little in the way to
disguise the address of the site. (At last check, the site was still up
at:
http://updatestatus.webz.cz/rbc/cgi-bin/rbaccess/login.html)

Odd, either there are some newbie phishers out there, or they are
starting to realise that no matter how much they disguise their sites
someone will be having them shut down soon enough so catching the
uninformed in the few moments they have is paramount. Will we be seeing
an increase in the diversity of referring addresses in a flooding
attempt to catch the last remaining moms and pops who don't know better
versus well-crafted addresses that don't arouse suspicions?

-----Original Message-----
From: Alex [mailto:incidents () alex gotdns org]
Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2005 7:51 PM
To: incidents () securityfocus com
Subject: Re: Discovering and Stopping Phishing/Scam Attacks


I agree that checking by referer addresses is a powerful way to detect
phishing sites, but such logs can easily be adverted?

Doesn't some anti-popup software remove referer fields?

Simple use of javascript can allow a page to fetch anything without
showing
up in referer logs.

While we are on the subject, has anyone come across commercial and/or
government websites being (illegally?) mirrored?

For example, I recently came a website located on a (Asian?) hosting
provider where the content of the website was EXACTLY that of a
well-known
US govt website.  (It appeared that they ran the equivalent of a
recursive
"wget" on the real site and hosted the files).  It appeared to be
several
layers deep.

Why would anyone want to do that?

-Alex


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