Security Response

My previous blog article was intended to highlight two new features observed in a number of phishing kits that held the aim of making the lives of security analysts more difficult. I want to now focus my attention on another trick that has been used in phishing kits in order to protect the attack against a technique called "dilution." Dilution is a method of providing a certain amount of false credentials, names, account numbers, and other personal information to a phishing website. With this technique, real credentials are diluted in a sea of false data, making the fraudster's job harder.

There are several different kinds of dilution strategies, classified by the type of data provided to the phishing site:

•    Random Data: a large amount of random unformatted data is submitted. This strategy attempts to fill up the collection point, but has a drawback in that the fraudsters can...