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Backdoor Found In UnrealIRCd Source Archive

Posted by timothy on from the channel-is-pwn3d dept.

l_bratch writes "A malicious backdoor was added to the UnrealIRCd source archive some time around November 2009. It was not noticed for several months, so many IRC servers are likely to be compromised. A Metasploit exploit already exists."

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  1. Re:It's nice that they're honest. by DaveV1.0 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    How about embarrassing as in "We have been claiming shit like this can't happen to us because we are open and everyone can look at the code and any change will be found and fixed quickly and this compromised code has been sitting out there for 8 months and no one noticed!"

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