Why pay when you can pwn? By John Leyden The Register 2nd March 2009
Three in four phishing sites are hosted on compromised servers, according to a new survey.
A study of 2,486 fraudulent websites found that 76 per cent were housed on hacked webservers, typically pwned after hackers identified well-known vulnerabilities using search engine queries. Free web hosting for fraudulent websites was used in just 17.4 per cent of cases.
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