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Re: Pastebin abused

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Post by jessedhillon »

mattdeboard wrote: post #23
shii wrote: post #6

Welcome to the internet, this is pretty old news. You want to see more interesting stuff? Next time you stumble upon an owned computer, try to follow where the network stack is leading to and you'll sometimes find IRC channels with really interesting mechanics and things in them to control these computers.

Interesting, do you know of any blog posts or articles that discusses these rooms, or more on how to do this? And I may be showing my out-of-touchness with black-hat culture, but I assume by "owned" computer, you mean one that's a botnet node?

I'd say a good way to get started would be to install Windows XP on a machine, start downloading and installing pirated warez, then watch `netstat` or install Wireshark.

Re: Pastebin abused

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Post by Kadin »

mtogo wrote: post #15

I thought everyone knew this. Pastebin hasn't been used seriously for pasting code snippets for years, everyone's moved to one of the ( much ) better pastebins. Here's just a few i can think of off the top of my head: http://paste.pocoo.org/ http://gist.github.com/ http://dpaste.org/ http://fpaste.org/ http://codepad.org/ and http://rafb.net/paste/ before it was shut down

I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss Pastebin's legitimate uses. I see it get used all the time for sharing debug output and system logs (generally between systems where there isn't any other easy method of communication).

The other ones may be prettier but Pastebin has mindshare.

Re: Pastebin abused

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Post by dendory »

Why is this news, hasn't this been the case since the very start? Any time I see a link to a pastebin site I always take a look at the public shares just to see what's up there and it's always filled with this stuff.

Re: Pastebin abused

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Post by olalonde »

Talking of Pastebin abuse, I just received this e-mail:

dear, My name is Miss.vanita, I came across your email today on (pastebin.com) and I'm interested in knowing you & being friendly with you. I would appreciate if we get acquainted as soon as possible,so that we can get to know each other better.and also to send you my photos.I will be waiting to hear from you Yours vanita. dont mine the email i use in sending you this email is for my friend i prifer to use it for first contact with you see you okey.

Re: Pastebin abused

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Post by StudyAnimal »

pavel_lishin wrote: post #26

Some of them sound downright sad: http://pastebin.com/v70Z85aC Another I just saw was a keylog of someone changing their password after their Facebook account was flagged for suspicious activity. Obviously, they've got bigger problems. Question: should I contact this person and tell them what happened? (Thinking about it, it would be trivial to write a script that monitors for this kind of stuff, and e-mails the vict…

I know, irregardless is not even a word!

Re: Pastebin abused

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Post by Luyt »

cubicle67 wrote: post #38

WARNING - don't click on the tinypic link in the comments [Edit: not sure if the pic's fake or not, but it's a photo of the top halves of two corpses]

Thanks for the tip, I removed the link from that comment. It was a gruesome picture indeed, fake or not.
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