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Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 07:12:53 -0400 From: Jeffrey Walton <noloader@...il.com> To: Full Disclosure List <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk> Subject: Fwd: [cryptography] Paypal phish using EV certificate It looks like Paypal has suffered a break-in and phishing attempts are being made on its users. Time to sell you stock (or buy it short) for the immediate future. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jeffrey Walton <noloader@...il.com> Date: Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 5:25 AM Subject: Re: [cryptography] Paypal phish using EV certificate To: Peter Gutmann <pgut001@...auckland.ac.nz> Cc: cryptography@...dombit.net On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 5:10 AM, Peter Gutmann <pgut001@...auckland.ac.nz> wrote: > I recently got a another of the standard phishing emails for Paypal, directing > me to https://email-edg.paypal.com, which redirects to > https://view.paypal-communication.com, which has a PayPal EV certificate from > Verisign. According to this post > http://www.onelogin.com/a-paypal-phishing-attack/ it may or may not be a > phishing attack (no-one's really sure), and this post > http://www.linuxevolution.net/?p=12 says it is a phishing attack and the site > will be shut down by Paypal... back in May 2011. > > Can anyone explain this? It's either a really clever phish (or the CAs are > following their historically lax levels of checking), or Paypal has joined the > ranks of US banks in training their users to become phishing victims. If that's true, I think the more interesting fact is: it appears email-edg.paypal.com is controlled by the attacker. Why else would Paypal redirect from a host in their domain to a host not in their domain controlled by the adversary? (Its a bit different than standard phishing training where both hosts/domains are controlled by Paypal). Has Paypal fess'ed up to any break-ins or breaches? Jeff _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
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