On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 7:22 AM, Julius Kivimäki <[email protected]> wrote: > All of the domains involved just happen to be registered on markmonitor by > PayPal. Really doubt this has anything to do with phishing. According to http://www.linuxevolution.net/?p=12 (referenced in the original email), Paypal stated the site "paypal-communication.com" was a phishing site.
> 2013/8/13 Jeffrey Walton <[email protected]> >> >> It looks like Paypal has suffered a break-in and phishing attempts are >> being made on its users. >> >> Time to sell you stock (or buy it short) for the immediate future. >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: Jeffrey Walton <[email protected]> >> Date: Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 5:25 AM >> Subject: Re: [cryptography] Paypal phish using EV certificate >> To: Peter Gutmann <[email protected]> >> Cc: [email protected] >> >> On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 5:10 AM, Peter Gutmann >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > I recently got a another of the standard phishing emails for Paypal, >> > directing >> > me to https://email-edg.paypal.com, which redirects to >> > https://view.paypal-communication.com, which has a PayPal EV certificate >> > from >> > Verisign. According to this post >> > http://www.onelogin.com/a-paypal-phishing-attack/ it may or may not be a >> > phishing attack (no-one's really sure), and this post >> > http://www.linuxevolution.net/?p=12 says it is a phishing attack and the >> > site >> > will be shut down by Paypal... back in May 2011. >> > >> > Can anyone explain this? It's either a really clever phish (or the CAs >> > are >> > following their historically lax levels of checking), or Paypal has >> > joined the >> > ranks of US banks in training their users to become phishing victims. >> If that's true, I think the more interesting fact is: it appears >> email-edg.paypal.com is controlled by the attacker. Why else would >> Paypal redirect from a host in their domain to a host not in their >> domain controlled by the adversary? (Its a bit different than standard >> phishing training where both hosts/domains are controlled by Paypal). >> >> Has Paypal fess'ed up to any break-ins or breaches? _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
