Spammers at the service of phishers

According to the reports of British security systems they have discovered a new group of hackers who do their business by the hands of a new category of victims - by would-be spammers. Recently, on one of the sites hosted in France a Moroccan group called "Mr-Brain" offered a free phishing kit to attack the innocent civilians. "Benefactor" offers software packages to setup a fraudulent website mimicking of such known brands as Bank of America, eBay, PayPal, HSBC and others to mislead people and to get their credit card details or bank account numbers. In addition, this site provides not only with the information on what kind of data can be collected from each entity, such as usernames, passwords or Social Security numbers,  but also includes the templates for spam email.

As it's clear the said group is not a charitable organization that aims to make some people richer. These phishing kits are designed to return any collected sensitive information  back to the email accounts controlled by Mr-Brain. So it is an easy way to do all the hard work by the hands of novice phishers who, unfortunately, can hardly boast with successful end of their attack.

And that is just one phishing kit placed in Internet and nobody knows their exact number.  And it's mean that we should be careful and think hard before sending any information to anybody.

                                                                                                                                                Aynny, reporter of Ecommerce Journal