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The 12-Line PHP Script That Cloned GitHub and Drained a Fintech's Secrets

11:47 PM. Sarah clicks a Slack link mimicking GitHub. By morning, her company's AWS secrets are gone. Here's the invisible engineering making phishing deadlier than ever.

DevTools Feed Apr 03, 2026 3 min read
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Cloned GitHub login page on a phishing site stealing credentials

⚡ Key Takeaways

  • Phishing kits clone sites in minutes using wget/HTTrack and 12-line PHP loggers.
  • Evasion stacks like IP cloaking and bot checks delay takedowns by hours.
  • Detection relies on URL entropy, visual pHash, but AI phishing looms larger.
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