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."
Re:Why can't we have commercial software like this (Score:3, Informative)
Because they have an incentive your normal software maufacturer doesnt have. It has to work as supposed to it has to ship.
Give current software companies a reason to code properly and the quality will take a big jump with almost no effort at all. Like, i dont know, any guaranties whatsoever the stuff works?
Re:Why can't we have commercial software like this (Score:4, Informative)
This isn't really the case. Often we face the situation where we can either not get management to allocate time to fix something, or permission to merge an existing fix into the main branch. A lot of bugs are known and developers want to fix them, but can't.
Re:Why can't we have commercial software like this (Score:3, Informative)
I invite you to look at your TCP connections and all those instances of svchost.exe running on your system... and you never had to click "Allow" to let them communicate over the net.
And I invite you to use SysInternals’ Process Explorer [microsoft.com] and find out what those actually are [ompldr.org].