Onderwerp: [Fwd: [TH-research] OT: Israeli Post Office break-in]

I thought this story might interest some of you. See forwarded message
below.

Gadi Evron.


Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 19:23:15 -0800
From: Gadi Evron <ge@linuxbox.org>
To: th-research
Subject: [TH-research] OT: Israeli Post Office break-in


Mail from Gadi Evron <ge@linuxbox.org>

This is completely off-topic, but very interesting.

Apparently there was a break-in in a branch of the Israeli Post Office.

The offenders placed a wire-less gateway connected to a switch inside,
and through it stole a few tens of thousands of Shekels in the few days
they were in operation (the Israeli Post Office is a sort of a small bank).

They only managed to run this operation for a few days.. I guess people
noticed that contraption connected to their switch. Although it looks
very much like a legit piece of hardware.
Another option is that someone talked too much, or they were already
under investigation.
I find it hard to believe that they were located due to the break-in to
the network itself, as crude as it was.

Once again we get a glimpse into a far smarter world of computer related
crime. Always makes me wonder about what *else* is out there, that we do
not hear about.

Last item I heard of was the theft of Face Recognition servers holding
terrorism-related databases from an Australian airport. There was the
Industrial Espionage bit using Trojan horses as well.

Gadi.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gadi Evron [mailto:ge@egotistical.reprehensible.net]
> Sent: 11 January 2004 04:07
> To: bugtraq@securityfocus.com
> Cc: full-disclosure@lists.netsys.com
> Subject: [Fwd: [TH-research] OT: Israeli Post Office break-in]
>
>
> I thought this story might interest some of you. See
> forwarded message
> below.
>
> Gadi Evron.
>
>
> Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 19:23:15 -0800
> From: Gadi Evron <ge@linuxbox.org>
> To: th-research
> Subject: [TH-research] OT: Israeli Post Office break-in
>
>
> Mail from Gadi Evron <ge@linuxbox.org>
>
> This is completely off-topic, but very interesting.
>
> Apparently there was a break-in in a branch of the Israeli
> Post Office.
>
> The offenders placed a wire-less gateway connected to a switch inside,
> and through it stole a few tens of thousands of Shekels in
> the few days
> they were in operation (the Israeli Post Office is a sort of
> a small bank).
>
I can't resist any longer. I have to ask a few questions.

1. How did they know which switch to connect to? Wouldn't this require some
knowledge of network topology.
2. If it is indeed a switch and not a hub, how did they obtain access to set
this port to monitor traffic?
3. How did they get access to the switch. Shouldn't it have been locked
away.
4. How did they convert electrons to money? Was this by raiding bank
accounts or collecting credit card numbers?
5. How could they be unable to hide a WAP in a rack (assuming the switch was
in a rack)? I can think of several ways to hide one without it being
visible.

Seems like a bit of an inside job to me, but I'm no Dick Tracy...

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