[pchelpers] News:Phishing coders hook clueless crooks

By John Leyden
24 Jan 2008 11:30
No honour among Web 2.0 thieves

Cheapskate fraudsters hoping to run phishing scams for peanuts have
themselves been hoodwinked. Security watchers have spotted a free
phishing kit containing a hidden backdoor that siphons off stolen
credentials from the fraudsters who use the technology.

Script kiddies are unlikely to twig that captured credit card numbers
are being shared with the coders who developed the phishing kit, a
recurrent group of Moroccan fraudsters calling themselves Mr-Brain.

More here:
http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2008/01/24/phishing_kit_backdoor/
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