Zeus Attackers Turned the Tables On Researchers 119
ancientribe writes "The attackers behind a recent Zeus Trojan exploit that targeted quarterly federal taxpayers who file electronically also set up a trap for researchers investigating the attack as well as their competing cybercrime gangs. They fed them a phony administrative panel with fake statistics on the number of Zeus-infected machines, as well as phony 'botnet' software that actually gathers intelligence on the researcher or competitor who downloads it."
Let me get this straight... (Score:4, Funny)
So, you can't trust software from malware vendors?
Re:I almost admire them (Score:4, Funny)
I mean, it's creative and ridiculous on a par with bad-scifi plot twists.
Bad sci-fi? I was thinking more of a Hollywood movie. The hero, a very smart well dressed man in some secret spy agency, let's say MI6, goes after the coders. Now, after using all of his super secret gadgets to infiltrate the the hackers headquarters, he's caught. BUT one of the hackers likes him and she becomes his ally, let's call her Boobies Mucho (She's Latina). Now Boobies frees this secret agent only for both of them to get caught, tied up, and hung over a tank of mutated guppies. These guppies have big teeth! And as an added bonus, have masers strapped on their heads - that's right microwave lasers! But they escape, and this secret agent finds and sets the destruct button on all of their computers - that's right, they're Dells and it's the power buttons!
The marines show up and they have a shoot out while all the Dell's are going up in explosions! The secret agent the sleeps with the ex-hacker and we 're done.
Re:I almost admire them (Score:5, Funny)
What makes you feel like you must hesitate to reveal that the whole Slashdot site is a fake, designed to get insightful comments from me. Everyone else is an AI, including you?
Re:I almost admire them (Score:4, Funny)