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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. Microsoft wont whack you and your family if... by Rivalz · · Score: 0, Troll

    If your project fails to meet standards, deadline, or perform acceptable you might end up in a hole in the ground.
    At microsoft I'd imagine you could stare at a picture of steve ballmer for 8hrs a day and get employee of the month.

  2. Re:Why can't we have commercial software like this by sexconker · · Score: 0, Troll

    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.

    Arguably?
    I think you mean "ignore and discredit all legitimate concerns"-ably.

    Apple is like the Iraqi information minister and the KGB rolled into one when it comes to:

    Silencing complaints on their own forums
    Holding press conferences to lie about design defects
    Advertising about their superior security while silently patching dozens of exploits months after they're made public
    Releasing products that simply don't work (Time Machine, anyone?), only to patch them to almost working months later
    Charging for updates and blaming SarbOx and accounting rules (The truth is they don't want to disclose to investors how much development and support costs are for particular products each year, because that will hint at when they're end-of-lifing products and rolling out new ones. Instead, they list those costs as fixed and not continuing, then say the updates are wholly separate endeavors.)

    I'll shit on Apple's products all day long because they suck, but if some people like them, that's fine.

    But there is no way anyone with a brain can honestly say Apple's products are technically superior, or that they handle their shit better than any other tech company.