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Re: Show HN: Phishing as a service

#31
post #22

I often intentionally click links to phishing sites, and sometimes enter in fake usernames and passwords. (I even wrote several bots to auto enter thousands of random usernames and passwords.) I don't like the click link = you lose idea.

What if the phishing site also has a 0 day?

Re: Show HN: Phishing as a service

#32
post #4

Love it! My recommendation would be to offer an option for allowing the target to be tricked through the whole process. (Even if credentials are discarded completely.) The idea here is nothing is left to the imagination. What you have is great, but it requires them to read and be observant, which is not the type of person who falls for phishing emails. Clicking the link is "No-No" #1, don't exclude "No-No" #2 from yo…

Thanks and thanks for the suggestion! One thought I'd had was longer/more in depth campaigns. It's good to know other people would be interested in that as well. One thing I was concerned about was that people might not trust some random guy on the internet to properly discard those credentials.

Totally legit concern. Seems like it would be an option that a customer might want after they've used the service for a bit and built up a level of trust. Overall, great idea.

Re: Show HN: Phishing as a service

#33

You should send the emails, and charge me to view the report.

You might be right--that would definitely help people get further into the flow before the high-friction "payment" step. (If I went the "pay to view report" route I'd obviously have to be super upfront about it; wouldn't want there to be an unpleasant surprise for people at the end of the flow).

One other thing I thought about was maybe making the service free for phishing up to N people.

Re: Show HN: Phishing as a service

#35
What if this site occasionally sends out real phishing mails? If a lot of sites are using it, they would have interesting stats one could use to target the right audience.

Not saying they would, but they could get hacked of course...

Re: Show HN: Phishing as a service

#36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks and thanks for the suggestion! One thought I'd had was longer/more in depth campaigns. It's good to know other people would be interested in that as well. One thing I was concerned about was that people might not trust some random guy on the internet to properly discard those credentials.

One option that might do something to ensure trust would be to have the javascript on the page that accepts the credentials be unminified and readable.

Or provide a self-hosting option; JavaScript can be changed at any moment. Request A might look fine, but request B for the same file 5 minutes later could be malicious.

Re: Show HN: Phishing as a service

#39

You should send the emails, and charge me to view the report.

That is an excellent idea! In fact, we've just implemented the billing service, so please go to http://cuttIeph1sh.com/account/billing, log in to your account and provide your payment information to continue receiving our phishing reports!
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