Scammers scamming scammers

Marco Cova looks in some detail at the contents of some phishing scam kits targeting particular banks that were released to the public recently. These sorts of kits, containing web code, are ordinarily sold to scammers, but these were given away free. It wasn't out of generosity, but part of a larger scam--the code was written using a variety of obfuscation techniques so that the unwary script kiddie who modifies it to send the captured information to their own email address will not receive it. Instead, that information is sent to various email addresses presumably controlled by the distributor of the scammer-scamming phishing kits.