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PayPal phising: Which gov.my portal made zombie?

Nov 23, 2006 14:21

Forty-eight hours have gone past and there have been no word about which Malaysian government portal has been compromised as the zombie used to send out spam mails phising PayPal account holders.

November 20, it was reported by Robert McMillan of IDG News Service that an antispam researcher had uncovered a phishing scam that uses computers belonging to both Rxdocuments.com, a medical transcription outsourcing company, and the Government of Malaysia.

The report said the scam was discovered by Bill Carton, an engineer based in San Diego, who is attributed for having spent the last 10 years as a volunteer antispam activist, shutting down bulk emailers in his spare time.

Carton received an email on November 17 morning that disguised itself as eBay's PayPal service.

Carton discovered that the link in the email was from a fake PayPal site hosted by servers on the Malaysian Government's gov.my domain.

Making it more fishy was that Carton's investigation also revealed that computers from another trusted source had been used to send out the phishing email.

The IDC story said neither the Miami-based but bangalore-registered Rxdocuments.com nor the Government of Malaysia had responded to requests for comment.

Despite the fact that Phishtank.com has published an alert naming Malaysia's Islamic Development Department (Jakim) has having compromised its server for phising, thus far, nobody from the government agency has stepped forward to clarify on the matter.

Meanwhile, news of this unknown Malaysian government portal implicated in the PayPal phising trip has made it to Computerworld.com, Pcworld.com, Net-security.org, Yahoo! News, Infosec Mailing List and SDA-India.com, to name a few.

While this is going on, Malaysian police are busy working on the robbery that carted away a mega-million ringgit worth of computer chips in Penang.

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About Jeff Ooi

Jeff Ooi is an Internet and e-Business consultant based in Kuala Lumpur who's spent the last four years blogging internationally on the tech scene, on anything and nothing. Which doesn't really explain why most of his own technology is about three years out of date. He doesn't even own a PDA after his Palm V crashed. He's on 3G, though... Lemak Lemang refers to coconut-flavored sticky rice stuffed in a bamboo container.