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Phishing attack. Basic encoding
From: Peter Harvey <peter.harvey () gmail com>
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 10:56:18 +1000
I have had a number of reports of messages targetting users on domains for their credentials. The interesting part of this message is the very basic but effective encoding of the message. It appears that there are a couple of characters that instruct the mail program to display the characters in the reverse order. An example is attached. This appears to be random in the characters reversed based on a number of examples forwarded. I would say this is a simple yet effective way of bypassing signature based filters. They also appear to be bouncing through Google to the compromised website for phishing credentials. I am guessing it is phishing as the websites that I have seen were unavailable at the time. -- Peter --
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