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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May 24th, 2005 at 9:26 pm
It is great and comforting to know that there are still good hackers around. There are using their gift of the God’s abilities out of joy to protect the majority.
February 2nd, 2006 at 2:14 am
You don’t have to be a hacker or coder to take down a Phisher. Just plug the Phishers URL into http://www.PhishFighting.com and fill their database with fake data. Add a haystack to the phishers needles.