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Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

The well-known FortConsult hacker, better known as Antisnatchor (@antisnatchor), dropped the phishing kit at the Kiwicon hacking event in Wellington New Zealand last week, offering hackers tips to more successfully target businesses through the world's most popular attack vector.

Dubbed "PhishLulz", the Ruby-based toolkit builds on Orru's expertise in phishing. It spawns new Amazon EC2 cloud instances for each phishing campaign and combines a GUI from the PhishingFrenzy kit with the popular BeEF browser client-side attack framework for which he is a core developer.

It also sports a self-signed certificate authority, additional new phishing templates for various scenarios a hacker may encounter, and will in the future be even more powerful with automatic domain registration, for now limited to registrar NameCheap.

All told hackers using the toolkit will be able to send more convincing and much faster phishing emails from seemingly legitimate domains, be alerted immediately when login credentials are received, and send exploits and gain user target configuration information such as operating system and browser versions along with other running software via BeEF.

[...] Phishing emails developed with PhishLulz are designed to trick discerning targets. An impressive 40 percent of staff at an unnamed Australian Government agency opened Orru's phishing emails and sent him corporate VPN credentials during a previous security test engagement.

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