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Dialers Galore

Dialers still seem to be very "popular" in Italy. While these pests are 
slowly dying out elsewhere because less and less people are using dialup 
to connect to the Internet, there are apparently still tons of web pages 
in Italy that are booby trapped with a dialer. The pages are 
cross-linked among themselves, leading to high page ranks in Google when 
searching for some of the more popular Italian words (auto, lotto, 
calcio ... :-). The various front companies and their connections become 
visible when disassembling a couple of the dialers: An Italian company, 
fronted by a domain purchaser in the U.S., with dialers that fetch 
additional code from a site in Moldavia and try to dial various +690 
telephone numbers in Tokelau. Hm.

Yes, I admit that I had to look up Tokelau as well. Tokelau consists of 
three atolls, Atafu, Fakaofo and Nukunonu, and lies about 350mi north of 
Samoa in the South Pacific. Sounds like an expensive enough long 
distance call to me. Should somebody aspire to write a bestseller techno 
thriller, I bet that tracking down the dark forces behind the dialer 
scam would be worthy of a Pulitzer.

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Cordiali saluti,
Stefano Zanero
Dottorando di Ricerca / Ph.D. Student

Politecnico di Milano - Dip. Elettronica e Informazione
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