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Phishing too. At one point in my job I was involved with taking down phishing sites, and we would sometimes get a copy of the Phish kit code from the site owner. These were basically extremely poorly written PHP scripts that people would buy from a scam-enabler and deploy to some website. The sophistication was the lowest possible level at each step. But even if you find the perpetrator bragging about it on Facebook, they're in Nigeria (for example) and the local government doesn't care at all.


A Belgian ethical hacker showed how insecure these phishing platforms are: https://inti.io/p/how-i-infiltrated-phishing-panels

(By the way, the perpetrators are closer to home than Nigeria).




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