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Originally Posted by Emagineinc
Yeah, coulda been a better way to go about it, targeted vengeance woulda served its purpose...like instead of taking down the whole network, secretly tracking the phishers and reporting them so you can exterminate them prolly woulda been more practical, and definately less attention drawn to them, cause i'm sure mill and the whole DT network isn't just gonna sit back.
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The sad thing is that phishers/spammers are nearly impossible to catch. It's SIMPLE to be anonymous on the internet. Proxy servers, WHOIS privacy services, free e-mail services, anonymous e-mail services, ISP's located out-of-country with an anything-for-a-buck mentality, e-gold and other "look the other way" payment services, etc. all provide significant ways for anyone to hide out from anyone else. On the remote chance an anonymous e-mail/server gets tracked down, all the phisher has to do is start over with more anonymous accounts.
Banks with multi-million IT/Security departments can't stop phishing. And we're not just talking about MySpace account phishing, but financial info phishing. People's credit cards are getting stolen and maxed out within minutes because of this phishing. The impact from this makes the MySpace phishing look like nothing more than an blistering zit on someone's ass. But nothing can be done because of the anonymity.
So the though of targeting only the phisher(s) hitting MySpace is great, but it just can't be done. Hackers know this, so the only thing they can really go after is the revenue source of the phishers. And that's why a network is targetted.
Although I
absolutely do not agree with targetting a network because of all of the innocent affiliates that wind up suffering to punish the few bad apples, I can understand why they're doing it.
The REAL unfortunate thing here is that the phishers probably switched out their links within minutes of the DDOS attack. So if MillNic is still being targetting, it's all for naught.