bugtraq - Re: Amazon phishing scam on Yahoo servers

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Message-ID: <20060222043451.GA8216@linux.unixwiz.net>
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 20:34:51 -0800
From: Steve Friedl <steve@...xwiz.net>
To: Paul Laudanski <zx@...tlecops.com>
Cc: bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
Subject: Re: Amazon phishing scam on Yahoo servers


On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 02:40:41AM -0500, Paul Laudanski wrote:
> servers, but their Abuse department closed at 5pm.  A full 6 or so hours 
> to run before they open back up.

Oh yah? Yahoo Paranoids jumped right on this...

$ dig www.user-unlock-amazon.com a 

; <<>> DiG 9.3.0 <<>> www.user-unlock-amazon.com a
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 13061
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.user-unlock-amazon.com.    IN      A

(translation: the domain is dead at the Y! nameservers)

Go Yahoo! :-)

Steve

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