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Warning Serious Internet Explorer Torpig Mebroot Sinowal Virus / Phishing scamThis forum post is dated 05/13/10. If you feel it is old or outdated, please follow up with a question or comment and someone may be able to update it, or reply with newer information if you have it. Kansas - Internet Providers
| Warning Serious Internet Explorer Torpig Mebroot Sinowal Virus / Phishing scam Warning Serious Internet Explorer Sinowal Torpig Mebroot Exploit/Phishing scam That Microsoft Doesn't know About There is a serious exploit in Internet Explorer that everyone must know about as soon as possible. I used a debugging program which is a program created by Microsoft that allows programmers to see the pages/URLS/IP addresses when Internet Explorer connects to the internet. I ran the software and visited these sites and I noticed a strange IP that was being accessed every time I went to paypal, Bank of America or Ebay and any site with forms that you input user and pass or CC info. I did a whois on the IP address that was coming up and contacted the ISP with screenshots of the exploit. I then called the ISP if they could help determine what the problem was. After reviewing it, they confirmed that this was some sort of hacker account that was gathering information. So it turns out the IE exploit is using an advanced phishing scam that is gathering information from the sites asking for credit card information and sending it to these IP addresses. But beware it grabs data you enter in regular forms and the everything looks normal thats what makes this so dangerous. They immediately shut down the hosting account with that IP that was sending information to. They confirmed that this was being used for hackers gathering phishing information. Because of privacy laws they could not give me any information of the owner of the hosting account, but they did confirm the X;b>...X;/b> |
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