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Custom Trojan Creation Tool Sold Online

Finch writes "Net Security.org is reporting on the surprisingly sophisticated 'virus in a can' software called Pinch. Pinch is a tool sold on several online forums and designed to create Trojans. It allows attackers to specify the data that Trojans steal. One of the interface tabs, PWD, allows malicious users to select the type of password to be stolen by the Trojan: from email passwords to passwords kept by the system tools. It is possible to order the Trojan to encrypt this data when sending it, so that nobody else can read it. 'Pinch also lets users carry out other actions: turn infected computers into zombie computers, pack Trojans to make detection more difficult, and kill certain system processes, particularly those of security solutions.'"

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  1. Re:Difference between Good and Evil by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    What's really sick is that most of them got a real kick out of it--and they're the asshats that I'll have to work next to in the professional world.

    No you won't, because you refuse to get a job, and therefore will remain a smelly bum who hasn't changed his underwear in what, 6 weeks? TAKE A SHOWER AND GET A JOB, LOSER