[LINK] Phishing Servers - Apache and Linux

[Rick Welykochy]

Marghanita da Cruz wrote:

> Rick Welykochy wrote:
>> I've google for stats on these things and found nothing pertaining
>> to the servers themselves.
> 
> See
> http://news.netcraft.com/

That's a useful page. I also found kudos for iWeb8, which I am using
for dedicated hosting :)

What I am looking for are stats on which operating systems (platforms)
are being hijacked for use by phishing scams.

We know that spam-bot armies are hosted on zombie Windows boxes
(by the millions) but who/what is hosting the pharming machinery?

My very small survey shows Apache/Linux being used. And as Craig S.
mentions, access was most likely gained by exploiting PHP on those
machines.


cheers
rickw




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