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Zeus Crimeware Kit Source Code Leaked
Trailrunner7 writes "The source code to the infamous Zeus crimeware kit, which has been sold on underground forums for years, has been leaked and is now available for anyone to see if they know where to look. Security researchers over the weekend noticed that files appearing to contain the source code for the Zeus crimeware kit were starting to pop up on various forums frequented by attackers and cyber-criminals. The Zeus exploit kit is perhaps the most well-known kit of its kind right now, and has been used by a variety of attackers for numerous malware campaigns and targeted attacks."
This news is good for the security researchers and anti-virus companies to a certain degree, but bad for the rest of us. Zeus is extremely well written and extendible. Now "everyone" has access to it.
The ironic part about charging people for access was that it kept the number of criminals with access to the world's best crimeware kit down, and now the floodgates have opened.
Chalk up another victory for Open Source!
Err wait...
Mod me down, my New Earth Global Warmingist friends!
Why do Windows users get all kinds of great software like this, now with the source, maybe we can finally get some really great malware for Linux.
You jest, but your joke is confused. A "Linux port" would mean that users of Linux would be able to use the attack toolkit -- not that they would suddenly become susceptible to the Windows exploit vectors.
Thus a port wouldn't enable us to create malware targeting Linux any more than a Windows port of GCC suddenly makes MS Visual Studio better.