full-disclosure - Re: Hack-Mail.net or similar site

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2009 10:08:41 -0700
From: Andrew Farmer <andfarm@...il.com>
To: mamo <mamo74@...il.com>
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: Hack-Mail.net or similar site

On 11 Sep 2009, at 02:46, mamo wrote:
> What do you think of web site like Hack-Mail.net or similar one?
> Do they really work and how?

hack-mail.net/howitworks.html:
> After about three to four days, you will get an email from the  
> account you wanted to hack. This email acts as proof we have hacked  
> the account. The email will be sent from within the vistims account.  
> It will contain information on the next step to purchase the  
> password from us. Please check that the email was sent from the  
> exact email address you wanted to hack. This email will NOT appear  
> in the 'sent' folder, so they will never know they have been hacked.

So, in other words, they're spoofing From addresses for profit. Clever.

_______________________________________________
Full-Disclosure - We believe in it.
Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html
Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/