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

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

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Thanks to domaintools.com - I also found that the guy (seemaexports3@gmail.com) used to own domain: bdmtsteel.com I also find similarities between above domain and these: transitoin-asia.com seabunker.net See this: http://imgur.com/tsxqwiQ If someone wants to do more research - would be fun to dig deeper.

Good research. Can I ask what you used to make that graphic?

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

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Thanks to domaintools.com - I also found that the guy (seemaexports3@gmail.com) used to own domain: bdmtsteel.com I also find similarities between above domain and these: transitoin-asia.com seabunker.net See this: http://imgur.com/tsxqwiQ If someone wants to do more research - would be fun to dig deeper.

Good research. Can I ask what you used to make that graphic?

I'd also like to know the answer to this question! :)

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Good research. Can I ask what you used to make that graphic?

I'd also like to know the answer to this question! :)

Sure, I used Maltego (commercial version + commercial domaintools access): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maltego (although Maltego also has a free version).

I love domaintools as it allows to find anything by anything. Like domains (current and historical) by email, or even by fragment of registrant information, such as by phone number or by zip code.

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

as for the first point, yup, I understood that from the article; I probably should have used "similar to Steam" rather than "like Steam". I mostly meant, you'd get a long stream of characters and you'd have to manually try to dejumble them. Whereas, I believe if you go by your second point, you can see "Ok, the user put username in the username textfield, password in the password field, address in the address textfie…

Most of them usually show specifics, the keylog file is often less of a jumble and more of like: {TAB}{TAB}{CURRENT WINDOW: Steam - Log in}{TAB}username{LEFTCLICK}password{LEFTCLICK}{CURRENT WINDOW CHANGED: Steam: Home}

That's not terrible. It would be fairly easy, almost trivial, to write a Perl/Ruby/... script to capture a large chunk of useful credentials.

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

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a few questions I'm wondering about, if anyone can help: - how do those PW stealers work? are they similar to the Steam one, where it'd delete existing creds and then sniff newly entered ones? - can this thing detect certain apps like FileZilla and then say "user entered " and send individual fields, and is that what is meant by supporting say FTP and FileZilla? - what does PHP support mean? maybe looks for common st…

> can this thing detect certain apps like FileZilla and then say "user entered " and send individual fields, and is that what is meant by supporting say FTP and FileZilla? Could well be. I haven't messed with Win32 in a while, but I'm pretty sure that you can sniff the contents of other applications' windows and dialogs. With a little work, you should be able to take a common app and work out how to detect it's login…

Winspy++ offered the ability to look at the content of password fields in native applications IIRC. It's been a few years since I've done anything on Windows.

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

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> It also attempts to steal password manager credentials and Windows keys. Ugh I hate reading this. I keep everything in my password manager. If I lose that I'm hosed. I wish more sites supported 2FA.

or had no authentication at all, just authorization. imagine having only a openid password to memorize... one can dream right

Wouldn't that just consolidate the attackable footprint? What if openid, or your openid account, got hacked?

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

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Website that we were running was under DDOS couple of years ago, what we did is we took ips of servers that made ddos. Then we scanned the ports, found vulnerability in the application that was running on it then get into the server using this vulnerability. We checked open connections and found one used for command and control server (irc server) then we listened to irc channel. DDOSers were talking private things o…

are you Steve? I read a similar story a while back!

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

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I just hope someday the general public realize what a poor job Microsoft has done regarding security on Windows operating systems and embrace other (and more promising) alternatives

broadly speaking, how would you design things? All I can think of doing is putting explicit permission grants on everything, requiring everyone to click a million times as was done with the first version of Vista's UAC, IIRC, which is no solution IMO.

ever heard of code signing ? Maybe MSFT could use some of its 23 BILLION dollars of yearly profit to test some of the programs and conditionally approve them if they pass muster, also based on the historical reputation of the signer (like ebay feedback). Then if they contain sleeper code or other exploits, the keys are pulled, updates are pushed to ALL users of the program that revokes the key, thereby preventing mass exploits

Come on, you're talking about the biggest and one of the oldest technological conglomerates on earth. They could fix the ecosystem if they wanted. But since they dont care about users, they'll wait till google does it for them and then sue over IP rights

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

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Website that we were running was under DDOS couple of years ago, what we did is we took ips of servers that made ddos. Then we scanned the ports, found vulnerability in the application that was running on it then get into the server using this vulnerability. We checked open connections and found one used for command and control server (irc server) then we listened to irc channel. DDOSers were talking private things o…

These days I'd be worried about CFAA or otherwise getting V& for this. In the "good old days", it was possible to get away with and laugh about this type of vigilante justice. These days though, you're more likely to wind up in prison. No longer worth it for lulz. Sad times now, but good memories.

What they did at the time would still have definitely been illegal. Probably not any more illegal than it is now. I doubt they'd be prosecuted, but breaking into any system is illegal.

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

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Website that we were running was under DDOS couple of years ago, what we did is we took ips of servers that made ddos. Then we scanned the ports, found vulnerability in the application that was running on it then get into the server using this vulnerability. We checked open connections and found one used for command and control server (irc server) then we listened to irc channel. DDOSers were talking private things o…

I’ve had a very similar experience – I’m surprised I’m not the only one who did that. I’d have expected the DDoSers to have better security

Serial DDoSers tend to have about the same level of computer knowledge as your parents. They just buy/rent botnets or pre-made software and templates to spread botnets.

And that's for the people actually hosting the botnet or "booter" (which seems to be what the parent poster found). Most of the time, it's one more layer down: just some kids paying for the right to enter an IP to DDoS temporarily.

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