+10000 systems compromised via irc & im

Social Engineering Attacks via IRC and Instant Messaging
Release Date: March 19, 2002

Systems Affected
Systems running Internet Relay Chat (IRC) or Instant Messaging (IM) clients
Overview
The CERT/CC has received reports of social engineering attacks on users of Internet Relay Chat (IRC) and Instant Messaging (IM) services. Intruders trick unsuspecting users into downloading and executing malicious software, which allows the intruders to use the systems as attack platforms for launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. The reports to the CERT/CC indicate that tens of thousands of systems have recently been compromised in this manner.



http://www.cert.org/incident_notes/IN-2002-03.html

Always with the bad news... Don't you ever sleep????

:thumbsup:

That is bad news but if you download the im clients from another site but it's own, it's most likely to contain a possible backdoor or trojan horse.

I mean What are we supposed to do about this guy? I tried....I really did.

*Washes his hands of JRocs blood.

FINE IF EVERYONE ****ING HATES ME I'LL QUIT OKAY MAKE EVERYONE HAPPY OKAY?????????