full-disclosure - Phishers now abusing dynamic DNS services

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Date: Mon Dec 12 17:15:10 2005
From: phased at mail.ru (phased)
Subject: Phishers now abusing dynamic DNS services

yeah this is definitly nothing new

-----Original Message-----
From: pagvac <unknown.pentester@...il.com>
To: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 15:43:36 +0000
Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] Phishers now abusing dynamic DNS services

> On 12/12/05, Florian Weimer <fw@...eb.enyo.de> wrote:
> > * pagvac:
> >
> > > The interesting thing about this attempt is that the phisher seems to
> > > be using a dynamic DNS service to gain the trust from the victim.
> >
> > "to gain trust"? Hm?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> What I mean is that the average user will trust more an URL when
> seeing the word "paypal" in it as a domain name, rather than some
> dodgy-looking numerical IP address, with a sub-directory called
> "paypal".
> 
> e.g.:
> 
> http://1.2.3.4/vulnerable_app/paypal
> 
> versus
> 
> http://www.paypal.25u.com
> 
> 
> Personall I would think that more users would trust the second link.
> 
> >
> > This is not really a new thing:
> >
> > 2005-04-19 08:24:49  ebayfraud.dyndns.org  A  220.110.65.252
> >
> 
> 
> --
> pagvac (Adrian Pastor)
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