When hacktivists get hacked (Coming up next on Fox!)
News today from Symantec that members of "hacktivist" group Anonymous may have themselves been hacked, exposing them to the risk of revealing e-mail logins or even Internet banking credentials.
It seems that some clever monkey has modified the group's PasteBin guide (which members use to download and install their "Slowloris" denial-of-service tool) to download the Zeus trojan (a relatively sophisticated and difficult-to-remove package which leaks all your personal information) first, then cover its tracks by downloading and installing the real tool.
This places Anonymous in a somewhat awkward spot - usually, they have no use for the "white hat" security firms like Symantec, but in this case they pretty much have to agree with the corporation's warning.
I don't suppose this would make any of them reconsider their life of cyber-crime, though? Didn't think so.
It seems that some clever monkey has modified the group's PasteBin guide (which members use to download and install their "Slowloris" denial-of-service tool) to download the Zeus trojan (a relatively sophisticated and difficult-to-remove package which leaks all your personal information) first, then cover its tracks by downloading and installing the real tool.
This places Anonymous in a somewhat awkward spot - usually, they have no use for the "white hat" security firms like Symantec, but in this case they pretty much have to agree with the corporation's warning.
I don't suppose this would make any of them reconsider their life of cyber-crime, though? Didn't think so.