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Custom Trojan Creation Tool Sold Online

Posted by Zonk on from the haxx0ring-made-e-z dept.

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. nothing special by sub7 · · Score: 3, Informative

    they were distributing trojans like this in the 1990s... sub7 anyone? ;)

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    1. Re:nothing special by KillerCow · · Score: 4, Informative

      Or the venerable Virus Creation Laboratory, ala '92.

    2. Re:nothing special by Afecks · · Score: 2, Informative

      I'm a trojan author so I'm getting a kick out of these replies...

      No seriously, this is not a new idea. There was Senna Spy Trojan Generator many years ago. However, unless the generator actually generates the source code so you can compile it, I would call it a highly customizable backdoor, nothing more.

  2. Nothing New by KermodeBear · · Score: 4, Informative

    There is nothing new here.

    I remember back in my script kiddie days I was able to download programs that would put together a trojan or virus together from the various options the user selected. Press a button and viola! It generated an executable. This was ten years ago.

    What's so new here? That fact that someone is commercializing it?

    Well, good. If you have to shell out cash at least it will keep my 16 year old self from downloading it and causing annoyances.

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  3. Re:Executive Order 9877389291 by rantingkitten · · Score: 2, Informative

    Considering that "virii" is a made-up, non-English word, then yes, I can believe Bush using it and being mocked in the media the next day for another brilliant Bushism. The proper plural is "viruses".

    Hate to be the one who bears bad news. And by the way, "boxen" is not a real word either.

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