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Zeus Attackers Turned the Tables On Researchers

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the escalating-your-race dept.

ancientribe writes "The attackers behind a recent Zeus Trojan exploit that targeted quarterly federal taxpayers who file electronically also set up a trap for researchers investigating the attack as well as their competing cybercrime gangs. They fed them a phony administrative panel with fake statistics on the number of Zeus-infected machines, as well as phony 'botnet' software that actually gathers intelligence on the researcher or competitor who downloads it."

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  1. Re:Why can't we have commercial software like this by Yvanhoe · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    You can usually pay more to have guarantees. Militaries and industries sometimes do that. Are you ready to pay more money (like 2x or 3x) for software ? Arguably Apple does (used to do) a good job in this area.

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