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55808 Trojan Analysis

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the crawling-about-in-the-digital-wild dept.

espo812 writes "This analysis of the 55808 trojan that has been circling the internet was just posted on Bugtraq . The good news (i guess?) is that apparentally it is just a proof of concept distributed scanner. The bad news is they think they just caught a copycat version of the origional trojan. ISS also has an analysis."

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  1. Related Information by Scoria · · Score: 5, Funny

    Timothy published related information this morning. Perhaps "55808" is attempting to locate Slashdot duplicates. ;-)

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  2. It's so simple! by Libor+Vanek · · Score: 0, Funny

    1. Write distributed trojan
    2. ???
    3. PROFIT!

    1. Re:It's so simple! by tomstdenis · · Score: 5, Funny

      1. Use the same fucking joke over and over.
      2. ???
      3. Jackass!

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    2. Re:It's so simple! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      1. Spot duplicate story on Slashdot
      2. Copy highly moderated comment from previous story
      3. ???
      4. KARMA!!

  3. It's the Church of the Subgenius by Bingo+Foo · · Score: 5, Funny

    Their "flagship," the S.S.BOB

    Uh that's a de-leetified 55808 BTW

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  4. What's Behind This Odd Dupe? by GillBates0 · · Score: 5, Funny
    From the BugTraq Post "The information we've been able to gather leads us to believe that the trojan we have captured is not the original source of the 55808 traffic that has been seen, but is rather a "copycat", created to mimic the behavior of another trojan or worm."

    The information we've been able to gather leads us to believe that the new article we're seeing is not the original source of the odd Slashdot-generated traffic that has been seen on the Internet, but is rather a "copycat", created to mimic the behavior of another article or story.

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  5. Long range network probe by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    "...ISS also has an analysis."

    They can perform packet sniffing and analysis from orbit?

    Geez, and to all you naysayers who claim that a reduced two-man crew could not get any science done!

  6. Re:This is quite a clever trojan by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    wow!
    1.) quote article
    2.) karma

    now if we could remove the first step and make it

    1.) karma

    then we could add

    2.) profit!

  7. Well That does it! by croftj · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm sick of all of the security breaches in Linux. I'm going back to the warmth and security om MS Windows!

    Y.A.W.B.T.B (Yet Another Windows Bigot To Be)

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  8. Product Name Change by malia8888 · · Score: 5, Funny
    Press Release: Trojan Condoms will hereinafter be called "Greeks". As any mythology student knows the Greeks and the Trojans in mythology were opponents. The Trojan Company in an effort to distance itself from the "trojans" in the cyber world will change sides in this epic conflict and now refer to their fine product as "Greeks".

    Press Release Number Two: Bill's Bait Shop will now refer to their worms as "Fancy Pink Wriggling Fish Food". Bill's Bait Shop, in an effort to distance itself from the "worms" in the cyber world will now refer to their fine product as "Fancy Pink Wriggling Fish Food".

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