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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.

  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 K.+S.+Kyosuke · · Score: 5, Interesting

      What about running it in a sandbox? It's not like a DDOS tool needs to access your files, is it?

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      Ezekiel 23:20
  3. Re:Not hackers? Shocking! by arth1 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Further proof the bulk of "anonymous" are just brainless sheep on image boards.

    Sheep? Yeah, most of them are. Much like anything popular, what you're mainly going to attract are sheep.

    Brainless? Some, sure. I saw one that had decorated her Guy Fawkes mask "to make it prettier". Um. Yeah, brainless. But I think you'll find some smart ones too, if you look hard.

    Image boards? Nothing in TFA points to that. It's easy to think of Anonymous as a bunch of 4channers, but that's not really true anymore, if it ever was. IRC and Twitter are probably more popular than image boards for those who go beyond just sniffing at Anon. Probably Facebook too for the more careless ones. But there's very little Anonymous on image boards these days.

  4. 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.

  5. 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?

  6. FBI? by Black+Parrot · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The summary and TFA seem to hint that this is an FBI sting, but the details don't seem to support that.

    Maybe more will come out about it later.

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    Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade