[Full-disclosure] Phishers now abusing dynamic DNS services

[pagvac]

On 12/12/05, Florian Weimer <fw at deneb.enyo.de> wrote:
> * pagvac:
>
> > The interesting thing about this attempt is that the phisher seems to
> > be using a dynamic DNS service to gain the trust from the victim.
>
> "to gain trust"? Hm?

Yes.

What I mean is that the average user will trust more an URL when
seeing the word "paypal" in it as a domain name, rather than some
dodgy-looking numerical IP address, with a sub-directory called
"paypal".

e.g.:

http://1.2.3.4/vulnerable_app/paypal

versus

http://www.paypal.25u.com


Personall I would think that more users would trust the second link.

>
> This is not really a new thing:
>
> 2005-04-19 08:24:49  ebayfraud.dyndns.org  A  220.110.65.252
>


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