[FYI] Super DIRT Trojan to infect indiscriminately

["Axel H Horns" <horns@ipjur.com>]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/24461.html

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Super DIRT Trojan to infect indiscriminately  

By Thomas C Greene in Washington  

Posted: 18/03/2002 at 17:17 GMT  

Our friend Frank Jones of Codex Data Systems has been busy with a 
number of projects associated with his loathsome DIRT Trojan, most 
notably one which seeks to distribute the infection indiscriminately. 
Cryptome's John Young has posted an HTML version of Jones' PowerPoint 
slide show, and from this we gather that Jones either has, or is 
struggling to develop, a super-malicious strain of his little viral 
toy.  

The latest incarnation is called HOPE, for "Harnessing the Omnipotent 
Power of the Electron." It sounds positively Biblical, but it's a 
mere h4x0r kiddie project which involves setting up a malicious Web 
site to infect all visitors indiscriminately, and to exploit the 
infection as victims spread it to their e-mail and IM contacts. 
Everyone infected will of course yield remote access to their 
computers via the DIRT Trojan.  

Jones recommends its use in combating terrorists, pedos and drug 
traffickers, and for employee monitoring. It's also perfectly suited 
to industrial espionage. Just set up a Web site which will interest 
your competitors, and infect them with the DIRT Trojan. How cool is 
that?  

It could also be effective for mass government surveillance in less 
enlightened countries.  

One thing it would be absolutely useless for, of course, is 
legitimate law enforcement. But that doesn't concern our Jones. He's 
happily bottom-feeding off LEAs and securocrats in countries where 
civil rights are weak, and off corrupt and/or stupid LEAs and 
securocrats here in the civilized world. ®  

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See also

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/24456.html

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/24433.html

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/19480.html




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