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Qbot Malware Resurfaces In New Attack Against Businesses (csoonline.com)

itwbennett writes: Security researchers at Varonis have uncovered a new attack using a new version of the venerable Qbot malware that "creates scheduled tasks and adds entries to the system registry to achieve persistence," writes Lucian Constantin, reporting on the attack for CSO. "The malware then starts recording all keystrokes typed by users, steals credentials and authentication cookies saved inside browsers, and injects malicious code into other processes to search for and steal financial-related text strings." The researchers "found logs showing 2,726 unique victim IP addresses," writes Constantin, but because "computers inside an organization typically access the internet through a shared IP address, the researchers believe the number of individually infected systems to be much larger." The malware first appeared in 2009 and was found to be uploading 2GB of stolen confidential information to its FTP servers each week by April 2010 from private and public sector computers, including 1,100 on the NHS network in the UK. A modified version of the malware resurfaced in April 2016 that was believed to have infected more than 54,000 PCs in thousands of organizations around the world. As Varonis now reports, Qbot is making yet another comeback.

120 comments

  1. Fuck you Qbot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    You can rot in Hell for eternity Qbot. You fuckers should be running linux to be immune. Fuck you all you mother fucking hackers. Fuck you. Fuck you.

  2. The creators need strung up by their nuts! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Before having their fingers and hands pulverized.

    Punishment must be proportional to harm, and they have caused so much harm...

  3. Hosts files to the rescue again... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    0.0.0.0 portla.mlcsoft.com
    0.0.0.0 mlcsoft.com
    0.0.0.0 qt.diggerspecialties.com
    0.0.0.0 diggerspecialties.com
    0.0.0.0 ontario.postsupport.net
    0.0.0.0 help.postsupport.net
    0.0.0.0 postsupport.net
    0.0.0.0 store.thecenterforyoga.com
    0.0.0.0 thecenterforyoga.com
    0.0.0.0 fixdoctorsfirst.net
    0.0.0.0 store.birthtothreeipswich.org
    0.0.0.0 birthtothreeipswich.org
    0.0.0.0 uhfudshfduhsf.com

    (ENTER THOSE IN HOSTS TO NULLIFY ITS ABILITY TO COMMUNICATE & WORK)

    * SOURCE https://www.varonis.com/blog/v...

    APK

    P.S.=> For the best hosts file multiplatform:

    APK Hosts File Engine 2.0++ 64-bit for Linux h t t p : / / a p k . i t - m a t e . c o . u k / A P K H o s t s F i l e E n g i n e F o r L i n u x . z i p (remove spaces between chars & download)

    APK Hosts File Engine 10++ SR-1 32/64-bit for Windows https://hosts-file.net/?s=Down... (DL link @ bottom)

    Soon for MacOS too (I just got a NEW Mac-Mini to port it there)... apk

  4. Malware infected more than 54,000 PCs ? by najajomo · · Score: 1, Informative

    Shouldn't that be more than 54,000 Windows PCs. this place is getting worse than ZDNET ..

    1. Re:Malware infected more than 54,000 PCs ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The words "Microsoft" and "Windows" aren't even found in TFS. Somehow seems deliberate.

  5. Thanks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Thank you to the editors, who, knowing that this site is "for nerds," provided us "nerds" with the scheduled tasks and registry entries the latest form of Qbot employs so that we could scan our systems for them. Much appreciated. You just can't beat quality editors.

    1. Re:Thanks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Thank you to the editors, who, knowing that this site is "for nerds," provided us "nerds" with the scheduled tasks and registry entries the latest form of Qbot employs so that we could scan our systems for them. Much appreciated. You just can't beat quality editors.

      Your'e kidding of course! Keeping that information secret is the job of Window Security Experts and should not be within the duties of stupid System Admins. If Windows System Admins had the ability to actually take care of the system without Windows Security Experts then the whole Windows Security industry would collapse and there would be no need for the Nortons of this world. Keep sys admins stupid I say it makes the computer security industry profitable! Naturally if it wasn't so easy to run crap .vbs and other .net garbage and have unauthorized garbage run on Windows as a service at boot then things like Qbot would not happen. If Microsoft ever decided to finally harden the OS then Windows Security Experts would not be necessary because the fucking load sequence of software in user space should always be transparent to the user and the SYS ADMIN instead of hiding crap in obscure registry values.

      There should be a way to simply alert the user or their sys admin to unexpected changes to the boot sequence of a user profile on the network and this is the failing of Windows. Lock down of boot sequence in a user profile must be made and any user on a intranet should not be allowed to boot if any unauthorized change has been made to the user profile boot. It should be a breeze to harden Windows and because it is not we have this shit still happening.

  6. What's the "system registry"? by OneHundredAndTen · · Score: 1

    Is that a Windows-only thing?

    1. Re:What's the "system registry"? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Is that a Windows-only thing?

      We have a system registry in Linux, but it is called something else even more stupid a system daemon or systemd. At one time we had a sensible boot system with easily accessed and controlled boot values but we switched to a more modern obfuscated Microsoft style encoded registry value boot system controlled by a boot time executable that reads obfuscated registry values instead of simple text.

      So we here in Linux land also require SYS ADMIN experts and sooner or later we will need SYSTEM SECURITY EXPERTS and so called antivirus software a la Microsoft software. We are rapidly catching up to Windows when it comes to obfuscation and overcomplication instead of transparency and ease of securing the OS and the boot processes.

  7. Re:Still IMPERSONATING me JEALOUS "Lil' Jowie"? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    No Mac version AND no DOS version? Garbage. You should be ashamed.

  8. MacOS not yet & why (DOS??)... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    See subject: Once I get my new Mac-Mini setup (yea, I know - I've had it for MORE than a month now, lol but I really LIKE Linux is why (does the job/does ALL I need to do so, it's "holding me back"))?

    THEN, the MacOS version WILL be made!

    (For me, YES, it will have to be - for me it's a "necessity is the mother of invention" thing to process hosts files here - & ONLY reason others who run Macs would get it, is IF I need it here, 1st (which I do/will)).

    * DOS? Is there even an IP stack for it?? I know there's TRUMPET Winsock for Windows 3.x though - why bother??? Almost nobody uses straight DOS anymore - but, if you mean a TOTALLY tty-term/DOS Windows/character mode version??? I could - & it'd be FASTER since that has less messagepass & code overhead vs. GUI models.

    APK

    P.S.=> Anyhow - there you are... apk

    1. Re:MacOS not yet & why (DOS??)... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It takes you over a month to setup a Mac? lol noob.

      Real haxxors use DOS.

  9. Deja ewwww all over again by CBob · · Score: 1

    Not looking forward to the 3rd shift follies of 24x7 onsite monitoring somebody goes and gets infected again.

  10. On PCs I started w/ DOS & read... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    See subject: It'd take a minutes to set it up but since I like Linux so much & my PC works fine running it, as I said: Linux is holding me back!

    * No joke!

    APK

    P.S.=> Guess I was a "real 'L33t Haxxor'" then circa 1990 onward... apk

    1. Re:On PCs I started w/ DOS & read... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      More excuses from APK noob. If you were l33t, you would know there are several TCP/IP stacks for DOS including MS Network Client.

  11. I only used Trumpet Winsock in those days by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    See subject: I didn't access the internet DIRECTLY before I used Win3.1 (however, I did go thru BBS systems, dialing them direct 1st & jumping OUT/OFF them onto the net via their conduit to it).

    * I'm no "noob" but I don't know 'everything' either - oh well!

    APK

    P.S.=> IF more folks used DOS & could get online w/ it, I'd think about doing a PURE character-mode interface model of what my program does, commandline switches (argc/argv) & all - but, they don't so, there ya are... apk

    1. Re: I only used Trumpet Winsock in those days by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Heh I doubt it. Lots of folks use Mac and you can't even setup your Mac. You're a blowhard noob.

      pwned.

  12. Make a wheel (see my ps)... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Says YOU, an UNIDENTIFIABLE anonymous do-NOTHING "ne'er-do-well" who STALKS me constantly on /.!

    APK

    P.S.=> Instead of wasting your time & obviously WASTED life by STALKING me? Make a Wheel (as I have that 100's of 1,000's worldwide use for more speed/security/reliability & anonymity online in my APK Hosts File Engine) https://isc.sans.edu/forums/di... ... apk

    1. Re:Make a wheel (see my ps)... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      lulz

    2. Re:Make a wheel (see my ps)... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
    3. Re:Make a wheel (see my ps)... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      k.

  13. Retarded bitch APK's work failed again by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Looks like we have another case where retarded bitch Alexander Peter Kowalski's work failed to prevent an attack and is stuck playing catch up requiring manual intervention to get updated. This means it failed to provide security and will fail to protect its users. Then again all APK knows is failure and getting his retarded bitch ass stomped regularly. Tell us how you can block all possible sub domains or shut your retarded pie hole?

    1. Re:Retarded bitch APK's work failed again by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You're mistaken. Blocking entries in hosts as indicated would shut down the botnet communique as well as stop downloads of it. Apk is correct.

    2. Re:Retarded bitch APK's work failed again by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Only retard we see is you stalking apk like the jealous jowie he often calls you, bitch. You do nothing of value to stop this threat and apk does.

    3. Re:Retarded bitch APK's work failed again by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      What apk does to stop this thing works. We haven't seen you do better work that's more effective against threats.

    4. Re:Retarded bitch APK's work failed again by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You fail again as you have your entire wasted life when we see you run from a question asked of you loser https://it.slashdot.org/commen...

  14. Retarded bitch APK has 2 pretend friends now by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    It looks like retarded bitch Alexander Peter Kowalski now has 2 pretend friends. If they aren't APK then each one is an even bigger retard than he is as he knows he can't defend himself and his ideas from the perfectly valid and entirely true criticism of him and his work. Apparently he things referring to himself in the 3rd person makes him look smart but the truth is that is makes him look mentally unstable as well as mentally deficient.

    1. Re:Retarded bitch APK has 2 pretend friends now by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Only retard we see is you. You were asked if you have done better work than apk has. You avoid answering. You have not. You are a liar and obviously mentally deficient and mentally unstable stalking apk the way you do.

  15. Retarded bitch APK is deflecting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Sorry retarded bitch Alexander Peter Kowalski that was just you deflecting from you unending failure. You won't even sign your posts now because you are trying to hide from the reality that you are a loser and will never be anything but. Quit posting fake support for yourself, quite spamming, quite acting like a total retard. Once you do that we will stop pointing it out and reminding you of it. Hope you enjoy living in the ghetto with your $1 dump of a duplex in the shit hole city of Syracuse. Your work always fails to prevent attacks as it is as effective as an AV scanner that only matches based off of file name many days or weeks after an outbreak occurs, which is why it is shit just like you. Maybe you can tell us all about your "success" when a project rejected your dumb simplistic idea that you even provided code for. They probably rejected it because your code sucked as bad as your ideas do.

    1. Re:Retarded bitch APK is deflecting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You project YOU are deflecting. You avoid answering a question! Question was to prove you did better work than apk has. Did you? Prove it.

    2. Re:Retarded bitch APK is deflecting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      We all know you are APK. Give it up.

      It's not hard to do better work than you. All that requires is not spamming slashdot for a decade with your shitty software and insane rambling. Nobody is "stalking" you, we're just tired of your SPAM. Slashdot comments are not free space to advertise your shit.

  16. Security pros etc. DISAGREE w/ you on hosts by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    "classic Windows hosts trick to block the Coinhive or Crypto-Loot domains" - https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/a-new-player-joins-coinhive-on-the-browser-cryptojacking-scene/ - BLEEPING COMPUTER

    ZD NET http://www.zdnet.com/article/how-to-use-a-hosts-file-to-improve-your-internet-experience/ "Hosts files really shine by letting you block ads, spyware sites, malware sites, & tracking sites"

    SANS ("A related approach to the DNS issue is to create a hosts file on each system that sends requests for spyware to some place else" hosts by myself & RAMU right @ START of "malware explosion" mid 2005 on) https://isc.sans.edu/forums/di...

    Aryeh Goretsky/ESET/NOD32: hosts = good security https://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=7442373&amp.cid=49747129/

    Oliver Day (SYMANTEC/SECURITYFOCUS) http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/491/

    Spybot S&D uses hosts!

    APK

    P.S.=> Malwarebytes' hpHosts hosts & RECOMMENDS my program forum.hosts-file.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=4290

  17. Hosts efficacy recently vs. threats by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
  18. Registered /.ers disagree w/ you #1/5 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Your software is just fine - well written, functional... I'm going to continue using the Host File Engine by mmell February 17, 2017

    Your premise that hostfiles are a good way to deal with advertising and malvertising is quite valid - by JazzLad April 20, 2016

    his hosts program is actually pretty good by xenotransplant August 10 2015

    his hosts tool is actually useful for those cases in which one does indeed want to locally block stuff outright while consuming minimum system resources by alexgieg September 25 2015

    I like your host file system by Karmashock September 09 2015

    that APK guy, I use his host file by rogoshen1 Tuesday March 03, 2015

    I personally use a HOSTS file blocker produced from a genius called APK by 110010001000 October 27 2017

    * SEE SUBJECT & TELL US: How does EATING YOUR WORDS taste?

    APK

    P.S.=> You're already VASTLY OUTNUMBERED but many more are coming (you haven't done better)

  19. Registered /.ers disagree w/ you #2/5 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Apk has the answer for that - really... kill automatic updates by adding a hosts file entry setting updates.steam.com or whatever to 127.0.0.1. You have to find the right hostname for each software you want to block updates on by raymorris (2726007) on Friday July 06, 2018

    APK your posts on this and the hosts file posts, and more, have never been in error and/or bad advice by BlueStrat (756137) on Wednesday June 21, 2017

    I support APK's stand on the hosts file and can't see why it's not used more than it is. My hosts file is 144247 lines long (4,332 Kb) it & a firewall serves me very well - by Trax3001BBS (2368736)

    ABP is insufficient as a solid hosts file does everything APK reminds us about fast turtle September 17 2013

    You need APK's hosts file - by Teun (17872) on Wednesday August 06, 2014

    APK

    P.S.=> You EATING YOUR WORDS != GOOD NUTRITION... apk

  20. Registered /.ers disagree w/ you #3/5 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    APK is totally right on this count. Adblock Plus on Firefox mobile is a dog on older, or lower end, phones. A hostfile based adblocker makes for a much better experience in this context. Of course, your phone has to be rooted, which isn't the case with Firefox + adblock." - by chihowa on Saturday May 16, 2015

    APK solution STILL relevant Thud457 June 11 2015

    In a footnote, I would like to note that I find your hosts file admirable - by vel-ex-tech (4337079) on Tuesday November 24, 2015

    APK's monolithic hosts file is looking pretty good at the moment - by Culture20 on Thursday November 17

    you're right about hosts files - by drinkypoo (153816) on Thursday May 26

    APK, I know people give you a lot of shit regarding hosts, but please don't ever stop - by nasredin (958927) on Friday June 12, 2015 @03:34PM

    APK

    P.S.=> Are you ENJOYING the taste of EATING YOUR WORDS yet?... apk

  21. Registered /.ers disagree w/ you #4/5 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    APK is kinda right... I've given up on JS based adblocking and gone to blackholing in /etc/hosts, just like it was back in the 90s. The computational load has gotten intolerable for any ad-blocking using JS. I've tried his hosts file generating software. It works. - by bmo (77928) on Thursday October 15, 2015

    get around to 'installing' a hosts file list, not sure which one, likely the one from someonewhocares.org. If it works as well as what I used for a while about ten years ago, I'll be happy. And grateful to APK for the lesson and the reminder. - by kermidge (2221646) on Wednesday March 27

    I actually went and downloaded a 16k line hosts file and started using that after seeing that post, you know just for trying it out. some sites load up faster. - by gl4ss (559668) on Thursday November 17

    dammit MS, you proved APK right about something by lgw

    APK

    P.S.=> Your words YOU'RE EATING: You choking on them yet?... apk

  22. Registered /.ers disagree w/ you #5/5 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    (APK) is still right a hosts file really does work. It even blocked a some of the video ads that were inserted into a stream OrangeTide February 10 2016

    the Host File Engine performs exactly as promised - by mmell (832646) on Thursday February 16, 2017

    I do use APK's host file on all my systems at home by OrangeTide December 01 2017

    I've never tried to belittle (APK's work), I've flat out said it's good - by BronsCon (927697) on Thursday February 11, 2016 @06:48PM (#51491263)

    * Toss on 100,000++ users worldwide too!

    APK

    P.S.=> You still haven't said how EATING YOUR WORDS tastes? apk

  23. Answer my question by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    You did better work than APK? Prove it. You're a jealous of APK do-nothing hiding behind unidentifiable anon stalking apk like an obsessed nut you are.

    1. Re:Answer my question by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You know the do nothing jealous "ne'er-do-well" low-life stalking apk won't answer that. He does zero. He is a zero. He is worthless and he knows it.

    2. Re:Answer my question by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Apk's stalker's deflector shields are buckling under the weight of this question put to him hahahahahaha https://it.slashdot.org/commen...

    3. Re:Answer my question by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      APK...stop spamming slashdot and get mental help.

    4. Re:Answer my question by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Apk stops big spammers like JEWgle advertisers with hosts. Answer a question you evade https://it.slashdot.org/commen... you lazy unskilled inferior loser.

    5. Re:Answer my question by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      When are you going to get it through your thick skull that more than one person is replying to you? I'm not "evading" your question because it was never directed at me.

      But I'll answer it anyway. I do better work than you because my employer pays me very well for it. Therefore I don't have to spam my shit on slashdot like a homeless beggar, all day every day. You wrote a simple hostfile program and you think you're a genius? You are a sad little man who is completely delusional. And apparently anti-semitic as well.

      And stop pretending to have "supporters." It's painfully obvious from the writing style that all those posts are you.

    6. Re:Answer my question by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Prove you're employed as you say. Supporters? Apk posted dozens of registered /.ers liking\using his work right in this thread. People like his work not your non-existent not there ware liar. You're nothing but an unidentifiable anonymous LIAR. It's all you. All I see is anon trolls and that is you.

    7. Re:Answer my question by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You want a copy of my W2? lol k.

      When I say "supporters" I mean posts like these, where you refer to yourself in the third person, acting like someone else is posting. We all know you are APK. You're just making a fool of yourself.

      As for the 25 compliments that you've collected over 5 years, nobody cares. Stop spamming and get a life.

  24. Prove where you work then (welfare boy) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    W2's come w/ the name "ANONYMOUS COWARD" on them, lol - you STUPID shit? YOU just made a HUGE FOOL of yourself!

    * Hahahahahahaha!

    (Funny YOU get no compliments for your 'work' (that doesn't exist, lmao & yet I DO from our /. peers - figure that one out liar (everyone else has)))

    APK

    P.S.=> My God, you are STUPID - I'd HATE to see the MESS code from an easily outwitted MORON like YOU might produce, lol... apk

    1. Re:Prove where you work then (welfare boy) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Says the guy posting as AC...

      I have no need to get in an internet pissing contest because I'm paid six figures for my code.

      Q.E.D.

  25. YOU POST AC & SAID THAT? LMAO! apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    WELFARE BOY prove you work as you said! Me, I "Id'd" MYSELF so answer a fair question put to you loser https://it.slashdot.org/commen...

    Oh, you won't ANSWER that question bitch & silence IS golden!

    (For me, as always vs. SCUM LIARS like you, loser - you DO-NOTHING "ne'er-do-well" LITTLE PUNK accusing ME of posting "pure" ac? YOU ARE SHITBRAIN hypocrite... lol!)

    * THANK-YOU AGAIN for proving how FUCKING STUPID you are, lol... no shit!

    APK

    P.S.=> See subject & WELFARE BOY, I "Id'd" MYSELF so answer (you won't WEEZIL bitch, lol - have fun living w/ your scumbag LOW self after that you cunt)... apk

    1. Re: YOU POST AC & SAID THAT? LMAO! apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      lol u mad bro?

    2. Re: YOU POST AC & SAID THAT? LMAO! apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You ran from backing up your bs you actually have a job at all. I'm laughing at you the laughingstock liar. Lots of talk, no action or proof from you.

    3. Re: YOU POST AC & SAID THAT? LMAO! apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Oh look it's APK posting as AC yet again. Such a hypocrite...

    4. Re: YOU POST AC & SAID THAT? LMAO! apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You post unidentifiable AC. Such a hypocrite and stalker of APK.

    5. Re: YOU POST AC & SAID THAT? LMAO! apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Take your meds APK.

    6. Re: YOU POST AC & SAID THAT? LMAO! apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Take your own advice and take YOUR meds. You obviously need them seeing as you obsessively and psychotically stalk apk.

    7. Re: YOU POST AC & SAID THAT? LMAO! apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      NO U

  26. Retarded bitch APK is afraid of the truth by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Retarded bitch Alexander Peter Kowalski is afraid of the truth about him so he runs and hides. Then to try and make himself feel better he demands that others prove they have written better software than his string sorter. Unfortuantly for him just about anyone who has written code has. Also non of his code has ever been through a formal validation process where it is proved correct and valid for all cases. This isn't a simple code review which is all he has managed but is much more involved requiring actual mathematical proofs. My code get this treatment all the time and actually provides real provable security and is used in critical systems that over 2 billion people depend on. So piss of retard APK.

    1. Re:Retarded bitch APK is afraid of the truth by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      APK's work\code works against threats unquestionably https://it.slashdot.org/commen... your crap fails. Hahahahahaha.

    2. Re:Retarded bitch APK is afraid of the truth by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Then why did you run from apk asking you a question to prove yourself cunt? https://it.slashdot.org/commen... you prove you're a cunt hiding.

  27. Now include the full quotes retarded bitch APK by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Now why don't you include the full quotes retarded bitch Alexander Peter Kowalski? I know why because if you did it would paint a very different picture of you and your work. When you get caught in your lies you can only deflect and post tyour fake BS support because real facts and real proof don't exist for your work. You keep failing to prevent anything and your work is as effective as an AV scanner that matches only on file names days or weeks after something becomes a threat. Not to mention the constant babysitting and manual intervention that your shit software requires. If you want me to believe that your software actually provides security then prove to me that it is capable of reducing the attack surface from one domain by 1 percent. You can't because your work provides no provable security. It also does less than tons of other solutions that can actually block entire categories of attacks, even unknown ones in that category. Your work will never be able to do that. Thus it only offers a false sense of security, not to mention being bloated inefficient code at 14,000+ lines for what is essentially a string sorter.

    1. Re:Now include the full quotes retarded bitch APK by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      What's quoted is their words verbatim. Words of praise of quality\efficacy of APK's work. Nobody says it of you or your non-existent notthereware\hotairware hahahaha you loser do nothing ne'er-do-well that is SO jealous of APK you STALK him by UNIDENTIFIABLE anonymous because you really are a do nothing nobody and you know you. Prove otherwise. You can't hahaha.

  28. Keep running retarded bitch APK by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Keep pretending someone supports your there retarded bitch Alexander Peter Kowalski. In my job if I said shit half as retarded as what you say I would be unemployable. If I suggested your security measures I would likely be held criminally liable. Why don't you go over and learn how to do real mathematical proofs of computation for completeness and correctness, read how to do real security, and then maybe you can talk with the adults about security. Once you have done that then go over and see if you can mathematically prove your code correct and prove a reduction in attack surface that would round to even 1%. You won't be able to so you will claim that a simple code review is the same as a formal validation. I take pride in knowing that you and over 2 billion other people depend on my work and am pleased that I don't ever have to depend on yours. In my industry people like my work well enough that I am sought out for projects that my employer wasn't involved in regularly. My employer pays me more money in a year than you probably earned in your entire career all so I don't go working for their competition.

    1. Re:Keep running retarded bitch APK by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You're an unidentifiable anonymous nobody with no accomplishments stalking APK. When you've done better work than APK then you can talk. You can't and haven't. Security pros and other notables disagree with you on hosts efficacy for security https://it.slashdot.org/commen... and more speed.

  29. How nice of the retarded bitch of APK by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    How nice of the retarded bitch of Alexander Peter Kowalski to provide a partial incomplete list of recent times when his shitware failed to prevent an attack and required manual intervention in a vain attempt to try and provide security. Too bad all that manual intervention that was required means a large portion of the users of your shitware went unprotected. You even note that it has failed many times in the past and that it is getting even less effective. Not a good way to convince people to use your slow bloated 14,000+ line string sorter.

    1. Re:How nice of the retarded bitch of APK by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You've done better work than APK has? Prove it. You can't. All you do is stalk apk by unidentifiable anonymous like the psycho loser you are jealous jowie. You are also illiterate. The list is as complete as what /. reported which is not a complete list on THEIR part. There were other attacks at Bleeping Computer for example they did not report on that hosts stop. As usual, you lose you clearly illiterate jealous retard (projecting you are nothing but that autistic loser you are).

    2. Re: How nice of the retarded bitch of APK by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      ROFL. Again with the third person posts. Every insult you fling is an exact description of yourself. It would be hilariously ironic if it wasn't so sad. You have the maturity of a child.

    3. Re: How nice of the retarded bitch of APK by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Hahaha knew it. You can't show you do better work than APK. No one says good of you or work (that you don't do). It's why you hide as unidentifiable anonymous stalking apk like the louse you are jealous jowie. You have the LACK OF INTELLIGENCE of a RETARDED CHILD you are.

  30. Retarded bitch APK caught in more lies by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Retarded bitch Alexander Peter Kowalski has nothing and now has resorted to just spamming his previously disproved bullshit.
    1. It is only mentioned as an also ran and stated as such on a pop computer site in an article not written by a real security expert, hardly a great endorsement.
    2. Another pop computer site article not written by a real security expert but even here they state there are better solutions than what you suggest.
    3. An open forum where any random person can post but is dedicated to security. However hosts is mentioned only as an afterthought which is where it belongs.
    4. This is one of your own fucking posts. You are a proven liar so anything you say needs independent corroboration, which this doesn't have, so it falls in the lie category.
    5. Finally a real security expert, except the entire article is about how black lists are shit and that hosts used as a black list is shit.
    6. Spybot S&D still does more than your work but hey this might be the best support you have.
    7. Sorry but the links you keep spamming for your shitware don't point at malwarebytes or hosts-file.net, instead they are to some site registered in a different fucking country by a different entity. You clearly don't know how domains work given this and is actually a really good reason to not trust your code that attempts to do things with domains.

    So there we have shown that all you offer is bullshit and lies.

    1. Re:Retarded bitch APK caught in more lies by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Nobody says good about any work in programming you do or its efficacy. You don't code let alone code well. They do of APK's program and hosts are viewed as good security by security pros and others notables. All you do is STALK apk by UNIDENTIFIABLE anonymous due to your jealousy. It is so painfully obvious. Nobody quoted says hosts are bad security. You are a liar also.

  31. Retarded bitch APK is the one with a wasted life by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Actually it is retarded bitch Alexander Peter Kowalski who has wasted his life. He greatest accomplishment is a string sorter that provides a false sense of security while spamming it prolifically for almost 20 years. He has provided much entertainment as people mock him, and destroy his arguments but it is really too easy as he is too fucking stupid to realize that he lost long ago. His life is such a waste that he has to resort to posting endless fake support of himself and spamming on page after page of slashdot because no one here will actually kick him off unlike every other site he has ever visited. So here is to the loser spammer who has wasted his life and now lives in a $1 dump of a duplex in the slums of the shit hole city Syracuse.

  32. Re:Retarded bitch APK is the one with a wasted lif by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    You do better work than APK has that even registered /.ers like\use\praise? Prove it. You can't jealous little jowie (hehehe). All you do is STALK apk out of your obsessive psychotic JEALOUSY like the psychotic loon you are. That you DO prove. Prove you even own a home. You can't. All you do is project the total loser you are and how jealous of APK you are. You lost in life on every level just like you always lose to APK hence your stalking him. You know you lose and are inferior to him. You are a waste of life and a do-nothing "ne'er-do-well". Prove otherwise. Oh, that's right! You can't hahahaha and it's why we laugh at autistic little retards like you projecting that you are indeed, limited and retarded as well as JEALOUS JOWIE hehehehe and nobody supports you least of all your do NOTHING waste of life self.

  33. Re: Retarded bitch APK is the one with a wasted li by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    cool story bro

  34. Stop lying to your self retarded bitch APK by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Stop lying to your self there retarded bitch Alexander Peter Kowalski. The only link there where you are mentioned is the one where you you linked to your own post but you are a proven liar so that can't be trusted. Also every one of those links was torn apart. Since being a total failure seems to be what you are about then everyone can talk about your work. Finally stop posting fake support of yourself, we get it that you are ashamed of yourself so instead just don't say anything, ever.

    1. Re:Stop lying to your self retarded bitch APK by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Hahaha knew it. You can't show you do better work than APK. No one says good of you or work (that you don't do). It's why you hide as unidentifiable anonymous stalking apk like the louse you are jealous jowie.

    2. Re:Stop lying to your self retarded bitch APK by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      WTF is a "jowie"? You are a certified nutbag.

    3. Re:Stop lying to your self retarded bitch APK by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You are obviously! A jealous "lil' jowie" do-nothing "ne'er-do-well" who STALKS apk by UNIDENTIFIABLE anonymous like the whimp you are.

    4. Re: Stop lying to your self retarded bitch APK by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Answer the question.

  35. Retarded bitch APK is the illiterate one by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Retarded bitch Alexander Peter Kowalski is the illiterate one here. I clearly stated that it was not a complete list and only a partial list. In every one of the cases your shitware failed to prevent the attack and required manual intervention. The question was never about my work which unlike yours people actually do depend on so that is just you deflecting more because you are a failure and hate it when people state the truth about you.

    1. Re:Retarded bitch APK is the illiterate one by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Hahaha knew it. You can't show you do better work than APK. No one says good of you or work (that you don't do). It's why you hide as unidentifiable anonymous stalking apk like the louse you are jealous jowie. Blocking what apk and his source articles list as an IOC are what protects you from infection and if they are in hosts as APK notes it cripples bots. You are very stupid. You don't know that. Thank you for proving how tech illiterate you are also.

    2. Re:Retarded bitch APK is the illiterate one by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Why do you think blocklists are put out? Hosts block threats infecting you + cripple botnets on infected systems effectively stopping them working making them useless to botnet herders! You say don't block threats/do nothing! You do it on firewalls too? Not put rules in them to block threats? That is stupid of you.

    3. Re:Retarded bitch APK is the illiterate one by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Explain how your inevitably outdated blocklist stops zero-day exploits. Explain how your blocklist stops exploits not using hostnames.

      If you think firewall rules are the equivalent of a simple hostfile blocklist, you are even more stupid than I previously thought.

  36. Retarded bitch APK lies more by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Retarded bitch Alexander Peter Kowalski lies some more, this time it is with the lie of omission. You selectively quote people without context but the truth is that if you actually included the full text it paints a very different picture of you and your work. Also people have openly stated that they have withdrawn their statements and told you to not use them any more. Specifically BronsCon who also had as his sig for a while, maybe still does, a statement that you misquoted him and that you should not be trusted. I see that you keep trying to deflect from the perfectly valid and entirely true criticism of you and your work and are stuck posting fake support of yourself because you are a loser and have nothing.

    1. Re:Retarded bitch APK lies more by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Are you saying registered /.ers APK quoted didn't say what's quoted by APK? Anyone can check them by username & date to see if they did in their post history.

  37. Re: Retarded bitch APK is the one with a wasted li by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Hahaha knew it. You can't show you do better work than APK. No one says good of you or work (that you don't do). It's why you hide as unidentifiable anonymous stalking apk like the louse you are jealous jowie!

  38. Re: Retarded bitch APK is the one with a wasted li by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    If you don't know who I am, you can't know what anyone says of me or my work. Ergo, you are a liar.

    Bye Felicia!

  39. LOL! You're afraid to show your ALLEGED work by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Then you're the one AFRAID to show your ALLEGED 'work' then (which you projected ACCUSING ME OF THAT, lol - you prove my points for me every single time - in a way? Thanks - you always end up making ME look GOOD & yourself?? Well - being nice here??? NOT SO GOOD, lol!)).

    * :)

    Lastly - you KNOW my name & it's NOT felicia + yes, as I said, you are HIDING from me & hiding your ALLEGED "work" (I don't think YOU have any OR any that's any good) too.

    APK

    P.S.=> Anyways - whatever man - grow up... apk

    1. Re:LOL! You're afraid to show your ALLEGED work by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Nah it's Felicia now. Fits you perfectly.

    2. Re:LOL! You're afraid to show your ALLEGED work by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Apk's cock fit you perfectly as he stuck it up your ass making you scream like the dumb chimp you are here https://it.slashdot.org/commen... hehehehehe!

    3. Re: LOL! You're afraid to show your ALLEGED work by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      APK is gay? Well that's no surprise. ROFL.

    4. Re: LOL! You're afraid to show your ALLEGED work by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You wish he was gay. We see odd fantasies about APK you project you have about him. He let you fuck yourself https://it.slashdot.org/commen... against those tech facts he crushed you with. Hilarious how stupid you are.

    5. Re: LOL! You're afraid to show your ALLEGED work by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I don't need to wish. You've already proven you are. And every time you pretend to be someone else, you get a little more fabulous.

      APK, the Magical Flaming Anti-Semitic Homo...aka Felicia.

  40. Explain WHY my blocklist works vs. this threat by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Explain WHY my blocklist works vs. this threat https://it.slashdot.org/commen... + TONS of others (sample from recently only) https://it.slashdot.org/commen... ?

    * I can easily (since it updates as often as the user likes refreshing it) via:

    APK Hosts File Engine 2.0++ 64-bit for Linux h t t p : / / a p k . i t - m a t e . c o . u k / A P K H o s t s F i l e E n g i n e F o r L i n u x . z i p (remove spaces between chars & download)

    APK Hosts File Engine 10++ SR-1 32/64-bit for Windows https://hosts-file.net/?s=Down... (DL link @ bottom)

    APK

    P.S.=> MOST threats are done by hostnames (like 99%) too stupid, & I never said "hosts stop everything" as NOTHING does - just that hosts do MORE for LESS & natively minus extra "moving parts" for breakdown/exploit & operate in FASTER kernelmode vs. SLOWER usermode bs FULL of security issues (DNS/Antivirus) giving users more speed/security/reliability - YOU'VE DONE BETTER? Prove it... you can't! apk

    1. Re: Explain WHY my blocklist works vs. this threat by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You failed to answer either of my questions, because you can't. Your blocklist was missing the Qbot entries until you read the story on slashdot. By then it's too late. Outdated and useless, just like you.

  41. Holy SHIT you are STUPID, lol... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    See subject: QBot's a CURRENT LIVE THREAT - this immunizes you against getting it & neutralizes it IF you have it, dumbo (LOL).

    * YOU ARE SO FUCKING STUPID IT IS NOT FUNNY!

    APK

    P.S.=> An even DUMBER thing YOUR DUMB ASS FAILED ON vs. ME? Here (lmao) https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... but it makes sense - YOU = "THE HUMAN FAIL" (except a SUBHUMAN MONKEY like YOU doesn't qualify as human - too stupid, lol)... apk

    1. Re:Holy SHIT you are STUPID, lol... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      QBot has been a threat since 2009. Your blocklist didn't do shit until last week, when you read about it in the news. Pathetic. Furthermore, that link is your reply to someone else.

      APK, King of the Failures.

  42. You're going for 'post-burial'? apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    See subject: Trying to post bury YOUR SELF-defeat vs. me & my victory over you: Quote LAYER CAKE film ending:

    "Well, I'm honored but for me this is all over - I'm getting out. What was true then, is true now - have a plan, stick to it. So I'm sure you gentlemen may have lots to discuss but I have no business being here. I've got someone to meet. Adios Amigos..." - XXX (might as well be ME vs. you CHUMPS, lol).

    (GREAT FILM - see it IF you haven't)

    * LONG LIVE THE KING - me!

    APK

    P.S.=> It IS good to be the KING (& also the "Lord of Hosts" as well so-to-speak)... apk

    1. Re:You're going for 'post-burial'? apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      More dodging from the epic loser APK. What is this "jowie" you keep using as an insult?

  43. LMAO - you FAIL again... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I had it covered LONG AGO when it was known ORIGINALLY (my list's SUPER complete since 1997 in fact). Malwares do SHARE hostnames too stupid! Even between DIFFERENT ones!

    (That said - Odds are strong that I might have already had those "NEW" ones covered already IF they did that & if not? I have the new ones already as shown in my root original post here + the OLDER ones you DUMBASS, lol...).

    * YOU LOSE as always, stupid!

    APK

    P.S.=> You're TOO DUMB TO LIVE & wish you were ME... apk

  44. LMAO - SOLID PROOF I covered it long ago by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    See subject & what's that you said? EAT YOUR WORDS https://yro.slashdot.org/comme...

    * YOU LOSE as always YOU STUPID do-nothing BLOWHARD CHUMP that STALKS me by UNIDENTIFIABLE anonymous!

    It's proof I shot you down & yes, I've been covering Q-Bot since it's inception as I said (since I've built my hostfile since 1997) & that's proof from 3 yrs. ago no less & LONG before it as I said to you & before your STUPID AS USUAL blatherings!

    (AGAIN - I've been populating my custom hosts files since 1997 not ONLY from the sources in my hosts file that are REPUTABLE & RELIABLE from the security community BUT ALSO from 100++ other security sites... you LOSE as always).

    APK

    P.S.=> Your ASS got smoked - you PLAYED yourself, lol, fool... apk

    1. Re:LMAO - SOLID PROOF I covered it long ago by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Wrong. And nobody wants to be you. You live in a dump, drive a hooptie, and spend all day spamming slashdot. It's sad.

  45. YOU GOT CRUSHED BLOWHARD CHUMP! apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    "Your blocklist didn't do shit until last week, when you read about it in the news. Pathetic" by Anonymous Coward KING OF FAILURES on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @01:44PM (#58226464) from https://it.slashdot.org/commen...

    LOL, who's PATHETIC & A BLOWHARD CHUMP LIAR now https://yro.slashdot.org/comme...

    * Hahahahahaha....

    APK

    P.S.=> You PLAYED yourself bigmouth... apk

    1. Re:YOU GOT CRUSHED BLOWHARD CHUMP! apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Nope.

  46. YOU prove how STUPID you are, lol... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    See subject & I proved how STUPID you are quoting your fuckup vs. proof I had I always covered QBot https://it.slashdot.org/commen...

    APK

    P.S.=> You LOSE fool - your BIG BLOWHARD do-NOTHING zero "ne'er-do-well" MOUTH did you in, lol... apk

    1. Re:YOU prove how STUPID you are, lol... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Wrong again.

    2. Re:YOU prove how STUPID you are, lol... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You are a liar. And you still haven't told me what a "jowie" is. I'm pretty sure it's a word you made up. LOL.

    3. Re:YOU prove how STUPID you are, lol... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I can't lose. I won before you were born.

      Adios, GayPK.

    4. Re:YOU prove how STUPID you are, lol... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Nope again.

  47. YOU prove how STUPID you are, lol... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    See subject & I proved how STUPID you are quoting your fuckup vs. proof I had I always covered QBot https://it.slashdot.org/commen...

    APK

    P.S.=> You LOSE fool - your BIG BLOWHARD do-NOTHING zero "ne'er-do-well" MOUTH did you in... apk

  48. You constantly impersonate me proving you do by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    See subject: Do you even OWN your own home fully paid for? Prove it. My car's no hooptie (perfect condition in all ways & soon to be classic hotrod) & you STALK me all over /. by UNIDENTIFIABLE anonymous SAYING that (as well as IMPERSONATING me constantly lying https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... which I disprove immediately w/ the 1 thing you CANNOT lie against: FACTS)? Please, lol!

    I ALSO proved how STUPID you are quoting your fuckup vs. proof I had I always covered QBot https://it.slashdot.org/commen...

    APK

    P.S.=> You LOSE fool - your BIG BLOWHARD do-NOTHING zero "ne'er-do-well" MOUTH did you in, lol... apk

  49. YOU prove how STUPID you are, lol... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    See subject & I proved how STUPID you are quoting your fuckup vs. proof I had I always covered QBot https://it.slashdot.org/commen...

    APK

    P.S.=> You LOSE fool - your BIG BLOWHARD do-NOTHING zero "ne'er-do-well" MOUTH did you in, lol... apk

  50. YOU prove how STUPID you are, lol... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    See subject & I proved how STUPID you are quoting your fuckup vs. proof I had I always covered QBot https://it.slashdot.org/commen...

    APK

    P.S.=> You LOSE fool - your BIG BLOWHARD do-NOTHING zero "ne'er-do-well" MOUTH did you in, lmao... apk

  51. Re:You constantly impersonate me proving you do by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    ROFL! Your rust bucket will never be a classic.

    I own a very nice house, which is why I'm not jealous and constantly trying to prove myself to a bunch of neckbeards online.

    APK loses yet again.