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Anonymous Supporters Tricked Into Installing Trojan

Posted by Soulskill on from the if-you-can't-beat-'em-subsume-'em dept.

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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  1. Jokes on them! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Anonymous members don't have bank accounts.

    1. Re:Jokes on them! by soundguy · · Score: 3, Funny

      Skills that are fully buzzword-compliant as opposed to coding in Cobol, manufacturing buggy whips, or operating a VCR. If you can fully actualize the cloud paradigm, you're hired!

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  2. what could go wrong? by lostsoulz · · Score: 5, Funny

    Installing software that allows a third party to orchestrate DDoS? Sounds legit...

    1. Re:what could go wrong? by icebraining · · Score: 3, Funny

      Because one can easily recognize their own kind?

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  3. They don't need them by Viol8 · · Score: 5, Funny

    The pocket money they get from mummy and daddy doesn't make it worth while.

  4. Re:Reminds me of prohibition by abigsmurf · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah, screw the government.

    Just the other day, I learnt that the awful smell of natural gas is actually because of something they add to gas and that it wouldn't smell if they didn't have it! Now, whenever my pilot light goes off or I don't quite turn the oven off, my house absolutely stinks! The smell's so bad that last time it happened, when I wanted to smoke, I had to go outside, and get well away from the house to escape the smell!

    Why can't the government accept that not everyone uses these so called 'dangerous substances' like they seem to think they should be used?

  5. Re:So let me see if I understand this: by Tommy+Bologna · · Score: 3, Funny

    No, you're supposed to sit back, condescend, and radiate a false sense of superiority. You're right on track. Keep it up.