Gaza Conflict

[nihil]

Well, the Israelis are hitting back. They are encouraging people to download the "Patriot" tool to allow their PC to be used in DDoS attacks.

http://helpisraelwin.com/index.php?lang=eng

Article here:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01...iot_cyberwars/

Don't download it despite the assurances............. it is the TR/Drop.Bckdr.9 Trojan.

[instronics]

Well, the Israelis are hitting back. They are encouraging people to download the "Patriot" tool to allow their PC to be used in DDoS attacks.

http://helpisraelwin.com/index.php?lang=eng

Article here:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01...iot_cyberwars/

Don't download it despite the assurances............. it is the TR/Drop.Bckdr.9 Trojan.

LOL

Sorry for my non intelligent non contributing reply Nihil. But when i read that i just had to LOL.

Me wonders what people with think of next

[Linen0ise]

Funny article. Students taking advantage of brainwashing the sheep. You don't know the true purpose but install anyways. Wonder how many downloaded.

[nihil]

Well they claim 8,000, but from the site I visited I only saw about 4,000 hits on their hitcounter.

My AntiVir AV was not impressed with what I was doing I submitted the sample to Jotti and Virustotal. Out of 38 anti-malware products only:

AntiVir
F-Secure
Prevx1
SecureWeb-Gateway

Spotted it as something nasty.

I certainly wouldn't deliberately load a backdoor onto my system, even if I were a trusting sympathiser. If they can find it, who else might?

[The-Spec]

They could have used ajax and everyone's browsers to flood websites. That's how I would have done it.

[nihil]

They could have used ajax and everyone's browsers to flood websites. That's how I would have done it.

Sure, but I don't know about you............I get the impression that these guys are more political activists than IT specialists?

I just get a kind of "skiddie" feel about them.