Hackers Take Down Phishing Sites
Filed in: Security — May 24th, 2005
As fraudsters continue to target their victims with increasingly elaborate phishing sites, the surprise appearance of anti-phishing vigilantes is now hampering their operations.
A PayPal phishing site recently reported by the Netcraft Toolbar community was promptly taken down; not by the hoster or law enforcement agency, but seemingly by a vigilante with an interest in disabling such sites and protecting innocent web users:
The phishing site was replaced with a warning page, created with the open source OpenOffice.org suite on Windows. The identity of “sickophish” is not known, nor is it known how he gained access to the web server to perform the act of vigilantism.
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