We are faced up with phishing attacks almost each day; however what we cannot see is the face behind the attack. Rsnake at ha.ckers.org recently had a piece of an interview, with a phisher who calls himself “lithium”. Not only the questions but also the answeres have an effect on me. Through the post we take a fine glance into the world of phishing based on one phisher experience. RSnake asked the phisher, called “lithium,” how he operates, what technology he uses, and just how much money he makes off these scams.
I cannot say I discovered anything chiefly astonishing as the majority of my suppositions about the people that enter into this activity fit pretty much with the profile highlighted in the interview. Nevertheless it at all times puts me a little sideways to see to how young a few of them are when they initiate.
It was also difficult to listen to how many people are making use of the similar password for their email as they do for their social identities and how this can be converted into a fine bit-o-cash for the phisher. Lithium, who calls himself 18 yrs old and claims to have been phishing around since he was 14, said to have stolen more than 20 million identities, mostly using social networking worms.
He says,
I have so many hundreds of thousands of accounts to many websites I haven’t even got a chance to look through,
While RSnake admitted not to have authenticated all of lithium’s real numbers, he said in response to comments on his ha.ckers blog that the phisher’s story jives with that of traditional phishers.
