Anonymous Supporters Tricked Into Installing Trojan

dsinc sends this quote from a Symantec report: "In 2011, dozens of Anonymous members who participated in distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks in support of Anonymous hacktivism causes were arrested. In these DDoS attacks, supporters using the Low Orbit Ion Cannon denial-of-service (DoS) tool would voluntarily include their computer in a botnet for attacks in support of Anonymous. In the wake Anonymous member arrests this week, it is worth highlighting how Anonymous supporters have been deceived into installing Zeus botnet clients purportedly for the purpose of DoS attacks. The Zeus client does perform DoS attacks, but it doesn’t stop there. It also steals the users' online banking credentials, webmail credentials, and cookies. The deception of Anonymous supporters began on January 20, 2012, the day of the FBI Megaupload raid."

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Re:Not hackers? Shocking!

[KingBenny]

actually yea, i saw this video on youtube with a masked guy asking to download hoic and or loic for an attack on facebook (what they would want to achieve with that is a bit unclear ... blacking out facebook for a few hours has like zero consequence or political impact imo) sounded a bit like testosterone headbutting contest ... so i download it and scanned them both, avira gave nothing but housecall found malware in one of them ... so that's what i posted in a reply to the video ...
i dont know who would be so smart as to just download something from anyone with a mask thats available anywhere and install it without scanning but apparently some people did ... stupid?
yea
i can not believe the core of this movement would do something that obvious knowing how it would damage their reputation, fodder for the feds and such now, discredit, anyone can don the mask, everything gets exploited but i'm a bit like well, if you installed that without scanning, you kinda had it like coming, just a little bit
did i already say that anyone can don the mask and make any claim about anything at all ... i saw a post there at the time saying there was no mention of ddos attack on facebook on the 'official' anonymous channels, wherever that may be
i still believe in it, tho i see way more potential in a cooperation between a faceless publishing house and wikileaks than a bit of ddos attacks by some disgruntled whatevers, assange was taken down because he brought to attention what would otherwise have stayed mostly in the usual channels, he had a public face and could be attacked ... masked resistance publishing leaked documents would be way harder to trace and like i said, way more useful than just painting funny moustaches on websites or blacking them out for a few hours
we'll see :p (what struck me most was the total difference in style, the guy from the wall street video was clearly highly educated and very eloquent while the guy from the youtube facebook ddos was clearly not ... might have been a clue)
or not
we'll see :p