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      <title><![CDATA[Petroleum Wholesale charged with exposing customers]]></title>
      <link>http://securityratty.com/article/1e0eee4c18853dda51b902995e1d952a</link>
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Date Reported
6/19/08

Organization
Petroleum Wholesale, L. P

Contractor/Consultant/Branch
None

Victims
Customers

Number Affected
Unknown

Types of Data
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<img src="http://breachblog.com/images/95781-88451/pw.jpg" width="200" align="right" height="93"><font size="2"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Date Reported: </span><br>6/19/08<br><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">Organization: </span><br><a href="http://www.petroleumwholesale.com/sunmart.web/homepage.html">Petroleum Wholesale, L. P.</a> <br><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">Contractor/Consultant/Branch:</span><br>None<br><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">Victims:</span><br>Customers<br><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">Number Affected:</span><br>Unknown<br><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">Types of Data:</span><br>"sensitive personal information, including Social Security numbers, bank account numbers, and credit or debit card information"<br><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">Breach Description:</span><br>”HOUSTON -- Petroleum Wholesale, which operated Sunmart Travel Centers and Convenience Stores in 10 states, was charged by the Texas Attorney General of improperly disposing of customer records"<br><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">Reference URL:</span><br><a href="http://www.hcnonline.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=19788139&amp;BRD=1574&amp;PAG=461&amp;dept_id=532238&amp;rfi=6">The Pasadena Citizen</a> <br><a href="http://www.khou.com/news/local/crime/stories/khou080619_jj_storeid.1c30dcf3.html">KHOU-TV Channel 11 News</a> <br><a href="http://www.csnews.com/csn/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003819492">Convenience Store News</a> <br><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">Report Credit:</span><br>The Pasadena Citizen<br><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">Response:</span><br>From the online sources cited above:<br><br>HOUSTON - Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott today charged Houston-based Petroleum Wholesale, L.P., which operates Sunmart Travel Centers &amp; Convenience Stores in 10 states, for exposing its customers to identity theft.<br><br>According to the state's enforcement action, Petroleum Wholesale improperly discarded customer records containing sensitive personal information, including Social Security numbers, bank account numbers, and credit or debit card information.<br><br>"This defendant is charged with failing to protect its customers' sensitive information," Attorney General Abbott said.<br><br>"With more than 20,000 Texas victims each year, identity theft remains one of the nation's fastest-growing crimes. The Office of the Attorney General will continue working to protect Texans from identity theft."<br><br>Investigators with the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) discovered that the company improperly discarded hundreds of customer records in a publicly-accessible trash container outside its former headquarters.<br><span style="font-style: italic;">[Evan] According to information posted on the Petroleum Wholesale web site, "Petroleum Wholesale services more than 350 retail locations throughout ten states."&nbsp; This breach has the potential to affect many, many people.</span><br><br>According to investigators, the records included sales receipts with customers' names and full credit or debit card numbers with expiration dates.<br><br>The records also included returned checks, along with forms listing customers' names, banking routing numbers, driver's license and Social Security numbers.<br><br>The defendant is charged with violating the 2005 Identity Theft Enforcement and Protection Act, which requires the safeguarding and proper destruction of clients' sensitive personal information.<br><br>State law establishes penalties of up to $50,000 per violation of the Act.<br><span style="font-style: italic;">[Evan] This could add up quick.&nbsp; What's a better business decision, a few hundred bucks for a cross-cut shredder and accompanying procedures, or fifty grand per incident?&nbsp; Although, I am not sure that a shredder and procedures are not all that is needed in Petroleum Wholesale's information security program (assuming one exists).</span><br><br>The OAG also charged the company with violating Chapter 35 of the Business and Commerce Code, which requires businesses to develop retention and disposal procedures for their clients' personal information.<br><br>The law provides for civil penalties of up to $500 for each abandoned record.<br><br>For more information about preventing identity theft, contact the Office of the Attorney General at (800) 252-8011 or visit the agency's Web site at <a href="http://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov.<br><br><span">www.texasattorneygeneral.gov.<br><br><span</a> style="font-weight: bold;">Commentary:</span><br>One question that isn't clear from the news reports is whether or not this was a common practice at Petroleum Wholesale.&nbsp; Organizations should take heed of this case.&nbsp; I think actions taken by Mr. Abbott and other State Attorney Generals will only become more frequent.<br><br>I look forward to more information in the future about this case. <br><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">Past Breaches:</span><br>Unknown</font><br><br>
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      <title><![CDATA[Tucson area Domino's Pizza customer information exposed]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Technorati Tag: Security Breach

Date Reported
6/18/08

Organization
Domino's Pizza

Contractor/Consultant/Branch
Unnamed former owner of 24 Tucson area locations

Victims
Customers

Number Affected...]]></description>
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<img src="http://breachblog.com/images/95781-88451/dominos.jpg" align="right" height="176" width="175"><font size="2"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Date Reported: </span><br>6/18/08<br><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">Organization: </span><br><a href="http://www.dominos.com/home/index.jsp">Domino's Pizza</a> <br><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">Contractor/Consultant/Branch:</span><br>Unnamed former owner of 24 Tucson area locations&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <br><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">Victims:</span><br>Customers<br><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">Number Affected:</span><br>Unknown<br><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">Types of Data:</span><br>Names and credit card numbers<br><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">Breach Description:</span><br>Hundreds of credit card receipts dating back as many as five years were found "blowing in the wind" after a former owner of 24 Domino's Pizza stores in the Tucson, Arizona area was found to have been discarding boxes of old records near her home.<br><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">Reference URL:</span><br><a href="http://www.kvoa.com/Global/story.asp?S=8516485&amp;nav=HMO6HMaY">KVOA Channel 4 News</a> <br><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">Report Credit:</span><br>Tom McNamara, KVOA Channel 4 News<br><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">Response:</span><br>From the online source cited above:<br><br>Investigators found credit card numbers blowing in the wind for anyone to see.<br><br>These piles and papers strewn across the alley contain hundreds of old receipts from Domino's Pizza stores.<br><br>When we got a call about this, we went down to University Avenue and Euclid and saw these receipts were three, four, and even five years old.<br><span style="font-style: italic;">[Evan] Is there any business reason to keep credit card receipts for this period of time?&nbsp; I suppose a case could be made that these should be kept for up to seven years for </span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.irs.gov/businesses/small/article/0,,id=98513,00.html">tax purposes</a><span style="font-style: italic;">.</span><br><br>We contacted the former owner of 24 Domino's Pizza stores in Tucson.<br><span style="font-style: italic;">[Evan] This could have been a very risky breach in terms of overall potential impact considering the number of affected persons.&nbsp; 24 stores, x number of credit card transactions per year, and 5 years could add up to a pretty significant number.</span><br><br>She won't talk with us on-camera, but told us she'd been discarding boxes of old records near her home and somehow all those receipts got loose.<br><span style="font-style: italic;">[Evan] Incidents like this tear me up.&nbsp; I very much doubt that this lady had any malicious intention behind her actions, but nonetheless her actions could have caused considerable inconvenience (and possible loss) to a number of individuals.&nbsp; I presume that she just didn't know any better.</span><br><br>We found Scott Brumage's name and credit card number on one of those receipts in the alley.<br><br>Tom McNamara asks him, "See that? Recognize that name? Recognize the number?" Scotts nods, "Uh huh."<br><br>Tom asks, "Well how'd you feel when we called you out of the blue and told you what we'd found? What went through your mind?"<br><br>"It was just kind of surreal at first because I like to think I can trust using my card [because of] the convenience and everything of course."<br><br>Scott was startled to see his name and card numbers on our screen.<br><br>He says he's ordered a lot of pizzas over the years and expects privacy and protection when he pays for his pepperoni pie.<br><span style="font-style: italic;">[Evan] Is this an unreasonable expectation?&nbsp; Maybe it is an unreasonable expectation, given the current environment and considering the bigger picture (merchants, processors, banks, "the system", etc.).&nbsp; I don't think that it is an unreasonable requirement, but requirements, expectations and practices are not in alignment.</span><br><br>Scotts tells us, "I don't know. [I'm] just dumbfounded, other than they need to figure a better way of disposing."<br><span style="font-style: italic;">[Evan] It is dumbfounding, isn't it.&nbsp; I often wonder what people are thinking when they do some of the things they do.</span><br><br>The Investigators contacted the Federal Trade Commission in Washington and they say thieves could potentially use discarded credit card numbers even if the card has expired. The numbers on the card in many cases are still the same.<br><br>They say there could be enough information on the receipt to help a thief reveal more information about you, such as your social security number.<br><br>It's small comfort for Scott. He says, "I'm hoping this is a one time only [situation]. They might have just lost a loyal customer."<br><span style="font-style: italic;">[Evan] The impact to the victim is usually pretty clear and easy to quantify.&nbsp; The impact to the business (or organization) is not usually as easy to measure.&nbsp; In a competitive business like pizza sales, companies need to identify and communicate differentiators like ingredient quality, service, taste, price, location, etc.&nbsp; Maybe if customers viewed information security practices as an important differentiator, businesses would put more time and effort into securing information.&nbsp; Pipe dream?</span><br><br>In this case, the Investigators contacted Tucson Police and several officers came to collect the records we found and have them destroyed.<br><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">Commentary:</span><br>This breach reminds me of a <a href="http://breachblog.com/2008/06/11/cotton.aspx#comment-1124161">recent discussion</a> I had online with Benjamin Wright in the comments section of the "<a href="http://breachblog.com/2008/06/11/cotton.aspx">Cotton Traders confirms that their website was compromised</a>" breach.&nbsp; He makes a very good argument regarding accountability in credit card breaches.&nbsp; My responses to him are included. <br><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">Past Breaches:</span><br>Unknown</font><br><br>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 06:43:34 +0000</pubDate>
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      <source url="http://breachblog.com/2008/06/18/dominos.aspx">Tucson area Domino's Pizza customer information exposed</source>
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      <title><![CDATA[A Three-Ballot-Based Secure Electronic Voting System]]></title>
      <link>http://securityratty.com/article/1304eed9ebc2c8cc7840bff11df86ed9</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[This article presents a secure electronic voting system integrated in a single architectureone that addresses vote receipts, uniqueness and materialization of the vote, and voter privacy and...]]></description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[This article presents a secure electronic voting system integrated in a single architecture—one that addresses vote receipts, uniqueness and materialization of the vote, and voter privacy and anonymity. Our prototype, built using Web services and Election Markup Language, shows the proposal's viability.<br style="clear: both;"/>
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      <source url="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?i=b630b46756ad7c49f4813a182137a5e5">A Three-Ballot-Based Secure Electronic Voting System</source>
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      <title><![CDATA[Harvesting YouTube Usernames for Spamming]]></title>
      <link>http://securityratty.com/article/eb06befb0ddb9ee0e333f0fc7283d8b2</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[With a recently distributed database of several thousand YouTube user names, spammers continue trying to demonstrate their interest in establishing as many contact points with potential receipts of...]]></description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_wICHhTiQmrA/SCFi4dDpjZI/AAAAAAAABrM/c5qH43IPfCg/s1600-h/youtube_usernames_spamming.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_wICHhTiQmrA/SCFi4dDpjZI/AAAAAAAABrM/c5qH43IPfCg/s200/youtube_usernames_spamming.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5197544166974393746" border="0" /></a>With a recently distributed database of several thousand YouTube user names, spammers continue trying to demonstrate their interest in establishing as many contact points with potential receipts of their message, or even malware given the harvested user names database ends up in someone else's hands.<br /><br />Building such "hitlists" of end points to be spammed, or served malware, is setting up the foundations for the success of popular tools used for spamming video and social networking sites, efficiently, and with a very low degree of unsuccessful attempts to deliver the message. Moreover, these developments seem to indicate an emerging trend of building databases that would later one be efficiently abused, starting from the <a href="http://ddanchev.blogspot.com/2007/10/thousands-of-im-screen-names-in-wild.html">Thousands of IM Screen Names in the Wild</a> uncovered in October, 2007, and going to the <a href="http://ddanchev.blogspot.com/2008/04/skype-spamming-tool-in-wild.html">spamming of Skype users</a>.<br /><br />Direct applicability for spamming and malware campaigns, or a bargain for finalizing a deal, databases of any kind are prone to be abused in principle, and it's malicious parties in general I'm refering to in this case.<div class="feedflare">
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      <title><![CDATA[Super 8 credit card receipts found in landfill]]></title>
      <link>http://securityratty.com/article/2f9b7284a29b4691dc31649dd96d8f82</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Technorati Tag: Security Breach

Date Reported
3/24/08

Organization
Wyndham Hotel Group

Contractor/Consultant/Branch
Super 8 Worldwide, Inc
The Super 8 Motel of Lamar

Victims
Customers

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<img src="http://breachblog.com/images/95781-88451/super8.jpg" align="right" height="152" width="199"><font size="2"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Date Reported: </span><br>3/24/08<br><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">Organization: </span><br><a href="http://www.wyndhamworldwide.com/index.cfm">Wyndham Hotel Group</a> <br><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">Contractor/Consultant/Branch:</span><br><a href="http://www.super8.com">Super 8 Worldwide, Inc.</a> <br><a href="http://www.super8.com/Super8/control/Booking/check_avail?brandCode=SE,MQ,DI,HJ,KG,RA,TL,BU&amp;searchWithinMiles=25&amp;areaType=1&amp;destination=lamar&amp;stateName=&amp;state=CO&amp;countryName=&amp;country=US&amp;checkInDate=03/26&amp;numberAdults=1&amp;numberRooms=1&amp;checkOutDate=03/27&amp;numberChildren=0&amp;rateName=Best%20Avail&amp;rate=000&amp;variant=&amp;id=03138&amp;propBrandId=SE&amp;force_nostay=false">The Super 8 Motel of Lamar</a> <br><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">Victims:</span><br>Customers<br><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">Number Affected:</span><br>Unknown<br><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">Types of Data:</span><br>Names, credit card account numbers, expiration dates, addresses, and signatures<br><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">Breach Description:</span><br>"Bundles of credit card receipts from a Super 8 Motel in Lamar were discovered in Lamar's landfill, complete with account numbers, names, addresses and signatures."<br><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">Reference URL:</span><br><a href="http://www.kktv.com/news/headlines/16970366.html">KKTV Channel 11 News</a> <br><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">Report Credit:</span><br>Rosie Barresi, KKTV Channel 11 News<br><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">Response:</span><br>From the online source cited above:<br><br>Bundles of credit card receipts from a Super 8 Motel in Lamar were discovered in Lamar's landfill, complete with account numbers, names, addresses and signatures.<br><br>The receipts have everything a crook needs to charge thousands of dollars onto someone's credit card.<br><span style="font-style: italic;">[Evan] I don't think that these are the same receipts that get handed back to a customer, these are back office receipts.&nbsp; I remember when all customer credit card receipts had account numbers printed on them.&nbsp; Some time ago this practice was largely stopped and now we only see a masked, partial account numbers.&nbsp; I am still in the habit of checking my receipt every time I purchase something though.</span><br><br>Nina Kinney lives in Pueblo. She and her husband stayed at the Super 8 Motel in Pueblo a couple of years ago. Their names and address was among the pile, but not their credit card information because they paid cash.<br><span style="font-style: italic;">[Evan] A lot of times a credit card is required for reservations even if you wanted to pay cash.</span><br><br>Jane Lupp, Super 8 Motel Clerk said, "All of our receipts are sent to the owner in Canon City," Lupp also told 11 News.<br><span style="font-style: italic;">[Evan] I think Super 8 headquarters is in Parsippany, N.J., so this Lamar hotel is probably a franchise.</span><br><br>Lupp says those receipts come back to Lamar and go straight into storage.<br><br>"They were cleaning out that storage the other day and those are not the boxes that should have gone into the trash. Evidently one got in there," said Lupp. <br><br>But it wasn't just one box, there were at least three of them.<br><br>"I'm sure it was accidental," said Lupp.<br><br>Lupp says, normally they shred all old receipts. "I don't know how it happened. We will certainly make sure it doesn't happen again," said Lupp.<br><br>The receipts were discovered by a Lamar man who turned them over to 11 News. <br><br>If you've stayed at Lamar's Super 8 Motel in the last few years, you may want to change your credit card number.<br><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">Customer Reaction:</span><br>"We expect them to handle that safely and with proper manor. It's upsetting and disappointing,"<br><br>"It's kind of hard to believe that it was just an accident,"<br><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">Commentary:</span><br>I'm sure that this type of breach happens more often than we would like to admit.&nbsp; Not just at Super 8, but retail in general.<br><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">Past Breaches:</span><br>Unknown</font><br><br>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 07:47:46 +0000</pubDate>
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      <source url="http://breachblog.com/2008/03/26/super8.aspx">Super 8 credit card receipts found in landfill</source>
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      <title><![CDATA[Inside a Botnet's Phishing Activities]]></title>
      <link>http://securityratty.com/article/019622c192f822a37c52e62b1a9110d4</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[The following incident response assessment will demonstrate how a botnet's infected hosts can not only be used as stepping stones , but also for the purpose of sending out phishing emails, and hosting...]]></description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_wICHhTiQmrA/R8LUtKd7lyI/AAAAAAAABZg/FwWsJcOGQVo/s1600-h/botnet_phishing_01.png"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5170929194543847202" style="margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: left;" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_wICHhTiQmrA/R8LUtKd7lyI/AAAAAAAABZg/FwWsJcOGQVo/s200/botnet_phishing_01.png" border="0" /></a>The following incident response assessment will demonstrate how a <a href="http://ddanchev.blogspot.com/2008/02/malware-infected-hosts-as-stepping.html">botnet's infected hosts can not only be used as stepping stones</a>, but also for the purpose of sending out phishing emails, and hosting the domains used in the scams themselves, thereby forwarding the responsibility for the scams to the infected parties, in between remaining relatively untraceable. The malware variants are still in the wild, and the ecosystem itself is currently active as well. Upon receiving and sandboxing the malware detected as <em>BKDR_AGENT.AKJZ, Backdoor.Agent.AJU, Proxy-Agent.af.gen and Proxy-Agent.af.gen, BKDR_AGENT.AKJZ</em>, both binaries attempt to connect to several IPs, one's that's resolving to the entire ecosystem's name servers, namely <strong>72.46.130.154</strong>. This KISS strategy allows us to quickly expand the entire domain portfolio and the associated phishing campaigns already in the wild. Here are the domains serving the phishing pages that are actually hosted on the botnet's infected hosts :<br /><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_wICHhTiQmrA/R8LX36d7lzI/AAAAAAAABZo/Eo6KV4dr8_0/s1600-h/botnet_phishing_02.png"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5170932677762324274" style="margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: left;" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_wICHhTiQmrA/R8LX36d7lzI/AAAAAAAABZo/Eo6KV4dr8_0/s200/botnet_phishing_02.png" border="0" /></a><strong>asp29.com</strong></div><div><strong>asp63.net</strong></div><div><strong>aspx77.in</strong></div><div><strong>aspx83.in</strong></div><div><strong>aspx94.in</strong></div><div><strong>bank45.us</strong></div><div><strong>boa23.com</strong></div><div><strong>cfm83.net</strong></div><div><strong>com94.net</strong></div><div><strong>info23.in</strong></div><div><strong>net18.in</strong></div><div><strong>net73.net</strong></div><div><strong>net94.us</strong></div><div><strong>pid83.net</strong></div><div><strong>ref34.us</strong></div><div><strong>sec26.net</strong></div><div><strong>sec94.in</strong></div><div><strong>sid45.com</strong></div><div><strong>site17.in</strong></div><div><strong>site37.in</strong></div><div><strong>ssd47.com</strong></div><div><strong>ssl18.net</strong></div><div><strong>ssl19.com</strong></div><div><strong>ssl62.net</strong></div><div><strong>web42.in</strong></div><div><strong>web59.net</strong></div><div><strong>web636.com</strong></div><div><strong>www84.in</strong></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_wICHhTiQmrA/R8LcsKd7l0I/AAAAAAAABZw/2W7xo8rlKs4/s1600-h/proxy_trojan_uk2_net_dns.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5170937973457000258" style="margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: left;" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_wICHhTiQmrA/R8LcsKd7l0I/AAAAAAAABZw/2W7xo8rlKs4/s200/proxy_trojan_uk2_net_dns.jpg" border="0" /></a>It's quite obvious that their descriptive nature, just like the ones I've discussed before, is to be used in phishing attacks in order to visually social engineer the receipts. And as you can see in the attached graphs, the IPs resolving to the domains are the typical home based infected end users, who would from a theoretical perspective be sending phishing emails to themselves at a later stage. And so once infected the hosts phone back home to receive instructions on participating in the malicius ecosystem by temporarily serving the phishing domains. Upon infection the hosts try to connect to <strong>72.46.129.154</strong>; <strong>72.46.130.154</strong>; <strong>72.46.136.50</strong> and <strong>ns.uk2.net</strong>, where for the time being there're twenty different variants that are known to have been using ns.uk2.net for DNS resolving purposes. All of these domains are using the same nameservers indicating their connection. Here are some of the subdomains in the already running, and spammed phishing campaigns :</div><div><br /></div><div></div><div><strong>direct-certs9.bankofamerica.com.ssl36.net</strong></div><div><strong>www1.update.microsoft.com.ssl36.net</strong></div><div><strong>www7.nationalcity.com.asp29.com/consultnc/form.asp</strong></div><div><strong>microsoft.com.sec94.in</strong></div><div><strong>direct-certs1.bankofamerica.com.asp63.net</strong></div><div><strong>update.microsoft.com.web72.us</strong></div><div><strong>bankofamerica.com.web42.in</strong></div><div><strong>direct-certs0.bankofamerica.com.web42.in</strong></div><div><strong>update.microsoft.com.web72.us</strong></div><div><strong>www5.update.microsoft.com.sec94.in</strong></div><div><strong>www7.update.microsoft.com.web72.us</strong></div><div><strong></strong> </div><div></div><div><br />Now that the botnet's phishing activities are exposed, it's also important to mention the fact that besides the phishing activities, this is the <a href="http://www.cisrt.org/enblog/read.php?230">botnet that's been sending</a> out <a href="http://community.ca.com/blogs/672.aspx">the recent</a> fake <a href="http://blogs.pcmag.com/securitywatch/2008/02/more_phony_windows_update_site.php">Microsoft Critical Live Update</a> emails.</div><div class="feedflare">
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      <title><![CDATA[Setting up return receipts for LotusScript-generated Lotus Notes email]]></title>
      <link>http://securityratty.com/article/bf003afc95a5985014b52324ca0f8c0a</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Discover how to implement the Lotus Notes return receipt feature for LotusScript-generated email...]]></description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Discover how to implement the Lotus Notes return receipt feature for LotusScript-generated email messages.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/WhatisEnterpriseItTipsAndExpertAdvice/~4/237555875" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 05:02:55 +0000</pubDate>
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      <source url="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/WhatisEnterpriseItTipsAndExpertAdvice/~3/237555875/0,289483,sid4_gci1286667,00.html">Setting up return receipts for LotusScript-generated Lotus Notes email</source>
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      <title><![CDATA[AIB confirms payment receipts mix-up]]></title>
      <link>http://securityratty.com/article/20b04978d19103432c6503fb7cdb0888</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[AIB confirmed Thursday evening that a computer error caused 15,000 payment advice slips to be sent to the wrong...]]></description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[AIB confirmed Thursday evening that a computer error caused 15,000 payment advice slips to be sent to the wrong addresses.]]></content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Fri, 28 Dec 2007 10:15:45 +0000</pubDate>
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      <source url="http://www.enn.ie/article/10123485.html">AIB confirms payment receipts mix-up</source>
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      <title><![CDATA[Phishers, Spammers, and Malware Authors Clearly Consolidating]]></title>
      <link>http://securityratty.com/article/630ba3b8e9e355ca51f97bb8a3578cf9</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[In a recent article entitled &quot; Popular Spammers Strategies and Tactics &quot; I emphasized on the consolidation that's been going on between phishers, spammers and malware authors for a while

The allure...]]></description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_wICHhTiQmrA/R1yns6ehXuI/AAAAAAAABOM/25SKtSRTkDs/s1600-h/biting_email.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5142169264603619042" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_wICHhTiQmrA/R1yns6ehXuI/AAAAAAAABOM/25SKtSRTkDs/s200/biting_email.jpg" border="0" /></a>In a recent article entitled "<a href="http://www.windowsecurity.com/articles/Popular-Spammers-Strategies-Tactics.html">Popular Spammers Strategies and Tactics</a>" I emphasized on the consolidation that's been going on between phishers, spammers and malware authors for a while :<br /><br />"<em>The allure of being self-sufficient doesn’t seem to be a relevant one when it comes to a spammer’s results oriented attitude. </em><a href="http://ddanchev.blogspot.com/2007/01/inside-email-harvesters-configuration.html" target="_blank"><em>Spammers excel at harvesting and purchasing email addresses</em></a><em>, sending, and successfully delivering the messages, phishers are masters of social engineering, while on the other hand malware authors or botnet masters in this case, provide the infrastructure for both </em><a href="http://ddanchev.blogspot.com/2007/10/fast-flux-spam-and-scams-increasing.html" target="_blank"><em>the fast-fluxing spam and scams</em></a><em> in the form of infected hosts. We’ve been witnessing this consolidation for quite some time now, and some of the recent events greatly illustrate this development of an </em><a href="http://ddanchev.blogspot.com/2007/02/phishing-ecosystem.html" target="_blank"><em>underground ecosystem</em></a><em>. Take for instance the cases when spam comes with </em><a href="http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=202603073" target="_blank"><em>embedded keyloggers</em></a><em>, when </em><a href="http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&amp;taxonomyName=security&amp;articleId=9044598&amp;taxonomyId=17&amp;intsrc=kc_top" target="_blank"><em>phishing emails contain malware</em></a><em>, and a rather ironical situation where <a href="http://www.wired.com/politics/security/news/2007/09/pfizerspam">malware infected hosts inside Pfizer are spamming viagra emails</a>.</em>"<br /><br />The recently <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/12/07/national_labs_breached/">uncovered breach at the U.S Oak Ridge National Laboratory</a> is a perfect example of some of the key concepts I covered in the article, namely, harvesting of the emails courtesy of the spammers, segmenting the emails database for <a href="http://ddanchev.blogspot.com/2007/11/targeted-spamming-of-bankers-malware.html">targeted mailings</a> on a per company, institution basis, and malware authors eventually purchasing the now segmented databases for such targeted attacks with the spammers earning a <a href="http://ddanchev.blogspot.com/2007/10/dynamics-of-malware-industry.html">higher profit margin</a> for <a href="http://ddanchev.blogspot.com/2007/03/underground-economys-supply-of-goods.html">providing the service</a> of segmentation :<br /><br />"<em>The unknown attackers managed to access a non-classified computer maintained by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory by sending employees hoax emails that contained malicious attachments. That allowed them to access a database containing the personal information of people who visited the lab over a 14-year period starting in 1990. The institution, which has a staff of about 3,800, conducts top-secret research that is used for homeland security and military purposes.</em>"<br /><br />And, of course, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/09/us/nationalspecial3/09hack.html?ref=technology">there's a Chinese connection</a>, but thankfully there're articles emphasizing on the concept of <a href="http://ddanchev.blogspot.com/2007/09/chinas-cyber-espionage-ambitions.html">stepping-stones before reaching the final destination</a>, with China's highly malware infected Internet population acting as the stepping-stone, not the original source of the attack :<br /><br />"<em>Security researchers said the memorandum, which was obtained by The New York Times from an executive at a private company, included a list of Web and Internet addresses that were linked to locations in China. However, they noted that such links did not prove that the Chinese government or Chinese citizens were involved in the attacks. In the past, intruders have compromised computers in China and then used them to disguise their true location.</em>"<br /><br /><a href="http://ddanchev.blogspot.com/2007/11/are-you-botnet-ing-with-me.html">Publicly obtainable research</a>, and common sense state that malware coming through email attachments is slowing down, and is actually supposed to be filtered on the gateway perimeter by default, especially executables. Even the <a href="http://ddanchev.blogspot.com/2007/01/social-engineering-and-malware.html">first round of Storm Worm malware in January, 2007</a>, concluded that email attachments are not longer as effective as they used to be, and therefore migrated to spamming malware embedded links <a href="http://ddanchev.blogspot.com/2007/12/mdac-activex-code-execution-exploit.html">exploiting outdated vulnerabilities</a>.<br /><br /><strong>How such type of targeted malware attack could have been prevented?</strong><br /><br />- ensure that the emails are harvested much harder than they are for the time being, in this particular case, a huge percentage of the emails account, thus the future contact points for the malicious parties to take advantage of ornl.gov can be harvested without even bothering to crawl the domain itself through web scrapping ornl.gov<br /><br />- a freely avaivable, but <a href="http://www.guay-leroux.com/projects/pirana-0.3.3.tar.gz">highly effective tool</a> to evaluate whether or not your mail server filtering capabilities for such type of content work, is <a href="http://www.guay-leroux.com/projects.html">PIRANA - Email Content Filters Exploitation Framework</a> :<br /><br />"<em>PIRANA is an exploitation framework that tests the security of a email content filter. By means of a vulnerability database, the content filter to be tested will be bombarded by various emails containing a malicious payload intended to compromise the computing platform. PIRANA's goal is to test whether or not any vulnerability exists on the content filtering platform. This tool uses the excellent shellcode generator from the Metasploit framework!</em>"<br /><br />Taking the second possible scenario, namely that it wasn't a targeted attack, but malware attachments "as usual", mostly because the fact that <a href="http://ddanchev.blogspot.com/2007/01/inside-email-harvesters-configuration.html">modern malware automatically excludes mailings to .gov's .mil's</a> and the majority of known to them anti-virus vendor's related email addresses, hoping to infect as much people as possible before a reactive response is in place.<br /><br />If it were a spammed malware embedded link, the chances are the receipts followed it, but a spammed malware as an attachment is too Web 1.0 for someone to fall victim into, and it's rocket scientists we're talking about anyway.<div class="feedflare">
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      <pubDate>Sun, 09 Dec 2007 18:14:53 +0000</pubDate>
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