Algerian hackers behind eBay phishing attack?
In the regular flood of phishing emails coming to our spam traps, this one, using eBay as the target is worth the mention as it was possible to trace the attack to the possible attacker(s).
The email message arrived formatted as a standard eBay message from a fake seller with a request for an answer. Naturally, the link in the message pointed to a compromised web page with a fake eBay logon screen.
A visit to the root directory of the domain revealed that the whole site has been compromised. The attacker has left his signature both in English and Arabic.
A further visit to the link left by the attacker reveals a vaguely graphically interesting site of an Algerian hacking group “Algeria Security Team”.
A contact in the Algerian equivalent of the Serious Organised Crime Agency in UK would be really useful now. However, we cannot be sure that the “Algeria Security Team” is behind the attack. It could just be a coincidence, as many times multiple hacking groups attack vulnerable sites with viciousness of piranhas in a feeding frenzy.
Posted on July 7th, 2007 by Vanja Svajcer, SophosLabs, UKFiled under: General, Spam
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