by Paul Mutton on 5th November, 2015
The Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria is currently serving a webmail phishing site from its own government domain.
The phishing content is based on a ready-to-go phishing kit that is distributed as a zip file. It contains easily-customisable PHP scripts and images designed to trick victims into surrendering either their Yahoo, Gmail, Hotmail or AOL passwords.
http://news.netcraft.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/phish-resized1.pngGmail phishing content served from a Nigerian government website.
In this case, the kit has been deployed within an images directory on a Nigerian government website at financialreportingcouncil.gov.ng, which suggests that the site may have been compromised by a remote attacker. The same phishing kit has also been used to deploy phishing sites on several other websites over the past nine months.
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Nigerian government serving up fresh phish
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HA!!!!!!! so the Nigerian government wants to play with the big boys, well they better be careful as to tee off the cyber criminals and they will go after them.
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