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<span class="now-mark shipping">case closed</span>
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<h1>destroying a live parking phishing campaign</h1>
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a fake parking-payment site was impersonating a real brand and collecting card data.
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the campaign is gone now. this is the public version of what happened.
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the job started with the usual smell: a parking-payment domain that looked close enough
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to be trusted by someone in a hurry, but not close enough to survive inspection. the goal
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was not to be dramatic. the goal was to gather evidence, route it to the right abuse desks,
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and keep eyes on the target until it stopped being useful to the operators.
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<h2>evidence first</h2>
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takedowns work best when the evidence is complete and boring. i captured the landing page,
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response headers, client scripts, hashes, screenshots, dns, hosting data, registrar path,
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and the live collection behavior. nothing fancy, just a clean bundle that makes it easy for
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every responsible party to act without another round trip.
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<h2>pressure in the right places</h2>
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the reporting path hit the infrastructure provider, registrar-side abuse channel, browser
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blocklists, and the impersonated brand. public writeups should not include live endpoints,
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operational tricks, or reusable indicators that help the next kit operator, so those details
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stay out of this page.
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<h2>result</h2>
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<li>identified hosting, registrar, nameserver pattern, and collection flow</li>
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<li>submitted usable evidence to the parties that could actually take action</li>
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<li>monitored the campaign until it stayed down</li>
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<li>retired the monitors once the operation was no longer alive</li>
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the useful lesson: good anti-phishing work is paperwork with teeth. if the proof is clean,
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the target is real, and the escalation path is correct, a campaign can disappear without
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turning the process into theater.
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