SpyEye Trojan Source Code Leaked

wiredmikey writes "The SpyEye malware kit has long been both the bane of unsuspecting victims and a boon for cyber-criminals. Now, according to security researchers, the situation may have taken a turn for the worse. The SpyEye Builder patch source code for release 1.3.45 was leaked by the Reverse Engineers Dream Crew (RED Crew) recently after a crew member was able to locate a copy of SpyEye Builder 1.3.45 and create a tutorial that enables a reader with SpyEye Builder to crack the hardware identification."

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Re:WTF

[flappinbooger]

...does any of this mean? Can we get summaries that aren't the first paragraph of TFA? Can we get an explanation of what the hell TFA is talking about and why we should care?

Sheesh.

Spy Eye is a pretty well known and powerful RAT/Bot tool on level with the venerable Zeus. The real non-backdoored copies are (generally) all for-pay.

This is a licensed for-pay malware/crimeware toolkit. The source code is leaked and there is a CRACK for the builder. This is key. Now it's easier for the freeloaders and skiddies to get at and CUSTOMIZE this high level malware tool, making it harder to detect.

This means things are going to get more interesting (re: worse) before they get better.

The 'hacker" scene is like .001% real coder and 99.999% script kiddie and leach. This makes powerful tools available to many more people than before.