All of the domains involved just happen to be registered on markmonitor by PayPal. Really doubt this has anything to do with phishing.
2013/8/13 Jeffrey Walton <noloa...@gmail.com> > 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 <noloa...@gmail.com> > Date: Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 5:25 AM > Subject: Re: [cryptography] Paypal phish using EV certificate > To: Peter Gutmann <pgut...@cs.auckland.ac.nz> > Cc: cryptogra...@randombit.net > > On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 5:10 AM, Peter Gutmann > <pgut...@cs.auckland.ac.nz> 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? > > Jeff > > _______________________________________________ > Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. > Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html > Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/ >
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