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Monday, May 10, 2010

Code Fish Spam Watch - May 2004


DATE:
2004-05

AFFECTED COUNTRIES:
Australia

AFFECTED SITES:
spamwatch.codefish.net.au

EFFECT OF ATTACKS:
Eventual halt of project/website permanently.

SOURCE COUNTRY:
n/a

ALLEGED ATTACKERS:
n/a

TYPE OF ATTACK:
Various hacks

ATTACK SPECIFICS:
"Multiple cross-site scripting attacks as well as SQL injection attempts." (1)

EVENT DESCRIPTION:
Site was for a hobby project analyzing Internet Phishing scams. It seems the time required to defend against the heavy attacks was more than the owners were willing to spend.

URLS:
1. http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2004/05/11/antiphishing_site_targeted_by_hack_attacks.html


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