Next generation Phishing Kit Discovered

Researchers at security company “Imperva” has recently discovered a phishing kit next generation. According to Imperva is the free program “phishing kit published in the forum for hackers and used to build Web sites fake PayPal or a webmail provider. Then spam (impersonating security testing) is distributed to trick unsuspecting Internet users to provide their login information. The power of attorney hackers get a hit, possibly by stealing a large amount of data before the removal of the fake sites. backdoor functionality of the box tools “phishing” means that the maximum amount of the stolen data is moved back to the real authors of the hacking tool and not a substitute (proxy) hackers who use it. Since this new technology, the real perpetrators of phishing kits hit a large number of web data and payment services, without wasting time with spam operations through sharing of research work to his subordinates innocent. Imperva also appeared from the latest kit Phishing created in Algeria with instructions in Arabic, while the real kit is written in English. According to Imperva, unlike the old phishing kits (which has been used in years), living the new technology in the cloud and due to abuse of other hackers hackers . In commenting on the methods used by hackers in the latest phishing kits, Amichai Shulman, CTO, Imperva, said that to some extent, this is malware-as-a-service. attacks reveals how hackers use technology commonly used – the this context, the cloud, the report added ITpro publsihed from 23 Juli, 2010. Shulman also that these attacks were clearly implies a change in the usual models seen to date in the techniques of phishing. It should be noted that one of the kits as head writer claimed that phishing kits had been downloaded over 200,000 times, which may be an exaggeration, according to Shulman. Finally, it notes that hackers will be innovative in their phishing attacks. Cybercriminals copies have developed the Verified by Visa and MasterCard SecureCode protection signs to lure customers online.