How I Cracked a Keylogger and Ended Up in Someone's Inbox

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Post by Spydar007 » Sat, Jul 02, 2016, 6:33 PM UTC

How I Cracked a Keylogger and Ended Up in Someone's Inbox
trustwave.com

Re: How I Cracked a Keylogger and Ended Up in Someone's Inbox

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Post by popey456963 » Sat, Jul 02, 2016, 7:07 PM UTC

Is the header sticky for anyone else? It seems to take up ~30% of my screen (Windows 7, Chrome Stable) [0].

[0] http://puu.sh/pNYUH/d42d8395fc.jpg

Re: How I Cracked a Keylogger and Ended Up in Someone's Inbox

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Post by thesimon » Sat, Jul 02, 2016, 7:09 PM UTC

popey456963 wrote: post #2

Is the header sticky for anyone else? It seems to take up ~30% of my screen (Windows 7, Chrome Stable) [0]. [0] http://puu.sh/pNYUH/d42d8395fc.jpg

Same on Chrome & Safari on Mac, but didn't notice it while reading, only when I read your comment :)

Re: How I Cracked a Keylogger and Ended Up in Someone's Inbox

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Post by miahi » Sat, Jul 02, 2016, 7:12 PM UTC

thesimon wrote: post #3

popey456963 wrote: post #2

Is the header sticky for anyone else? It seems to take up ~30% of my screen (Windows 7, Chrome Stable) [0]. [0] http://puu.sh/pNYUH/d42d8395fc.jpg

Same on Chrome & Safari on Mac, but didn't notice it while reading, only when I read your comment :)

Exactly the same. I had to open the page again to see that there's a huge header.

Re: How I Cracked a Keylogger and Ended Up in Someone's Inbox

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Post by jacquesm » Sat, Jul 02, 2016, 7:13 PM UTC

Scary that a vulnerability that old is still worth exploiting.

Re: How I Cracked a Keylogger and Ended Up in Someone's Inbox

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Post by wila » Sat, Jul 02, 2016, 7:16 PM UTC

jacquesm wrote: post #5

Scary that a vulnerability that old is still worth exploiting.

In spam runs a success factor of one in thousand still can pay off. I'm afraid their results are better as that.

Re: How I Cracked a Keylogger and Ended Up in Someone's Inbox

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Post by piqufoh » Sat, Jul 02, 2016, 7:17 PM UTC

That's a great little story, interesting to read how these sorts of scams are carried out, but I also found the code analysis and decompilation tale fun!

Re: How I Cracked a Keylogger and Ended Up in Someone's Inbox

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Post by ipp » Sat, Jul 02, 2016, 7:18 PM UTC

popey456963 wrote: post #2

Is the header sticky for anyone else? It seems to take up ~30% of my screen (Windows 7, Chrome Stable) [0]. [0] http://puu.sh/pNYUH/d42d8395fc.jpg

It leaves just a little over half of a laptop screen for actual article content.

Re: How I Cracked a Keylogger and Ended Up in Someone's Inbox

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Post by alexpetralia » Sat, Jul 02, 2016, 7:24 PM UTC

thesimon wrote: post #3

popey456963 wrote: post #2

Is the header sticky for anyone else? It seems to take up ~30% of my screen (Windows 7, Chrome Stable) [0]. [0] http://puu.sh/pNYUH/d42d8395fc.jpg

Same on Chrome & Safari on Mac, but didn't notice it while reading, only when I read your comment :)

Same here, just noticed upon rechecking

Re: How I Cracked a Keylogger and Ended Up in Someone's Inbox

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Post by skraelingjar » Sat, Jul 02, 2016, 7:33 PM UTC

piqufoh wrote: post #7

That's a great little story, interesting to read how these sorts of scams are carried out, but I also found the code analysis and decompilation tale fun!

I agree, it's amazing how stupid criminals can be, even online. It's scary to think what someone as smart as these security researchers could do if they went black hat...