Re: Spam is funny!

[<neal.krawetz () mac hush com>]

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Yes, it's interesting to find that attacks of all sorts (spam,
phishing, and infiltration) are becoming targeted now.  Previously,
attacks were unsophisticated and limited to the unsecured, random
hosts that were vulnerable to dropstatd.  Now it seems these
attackers are catching up and developing slightly more
sophisticated tools for everything.

I fear we are entering a brave new world of information security,
and we need to worry about the next generation of threats.

- - neal

http://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/

On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 20:54:03 -0400 Saeed Abu Nimeh
<sabunime () gmail com> wrote:
> good find. i think the same thing applies to ebay users. i have
> seen
> some phishing mailers that look for ebay userIDs in ebay listing
> pages
> and send bulk emails to these userids attached to famous email
> domains
> like yahoo, hotmail, aol, etc. This means that if you've never
> used ebay
> it is less likely that you will receive an ebay scam.
> Thanks,
> Saeed
>
> neal.krawetz () mac hush com wrote:
> > In my last article at Security Focus, I mentioned that phishing
> is
> > directed (based on your online profile) and not blast-o-gram
> > (everyone gets one). My example used Arizona. I said:
> >
> >     For example, if you are likely in Arizona then you are more
> > likely to receive an Arizona Credit Union phish. They can guess
> > where you are based on the forums you use. If you post in a
> Tucson
> > forum or write about Flagstaff and Phoenix, then you might be in
> > Arizona.
> >
> >
> > Well, the email address associated with that article just
> received
> > an Arizona State Credit Union phish. It had never received one
> of
> > those before.
> >
> > Man, spammers are predictable and funny.
> >
> > - Dr Neal Krawetz, PhD
> > Author of "Yggdrasil Linux Unleashed" and "Other Stupid Shit"
>
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