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OK, is this Democrats building a Republican botnet ...
From: "Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah" <rMslade () shaw ca>
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:20:30 -0800
or Republicans infecting themselves ... or ... Junk mail ostensibly promoting software that allows anti-Obama-ists to become cyberactivists says: If You dont like Obama come here, you can help to ddos his site with your installs. The terse spam message links to a website where prospective marks are offered money for installing the packet flinging tool. Visitors to the site advertised by the spam are told to come back regularly for updates and warned that security scanner software may come to identify the software on offer as malign, and consign it to quarantine. That is certainly true, though not for the reasons suggested. The spam was one theme of a larger spam run. Other spam messages in the series offered more typical lures, such as pornography, while again pointing to the same malware download. Leaving aside ethical concerns and potential for prosecution, it is always more likely that any supposed U.S. President website attack tool would turn compromised machines into spam-relaying zombies than anything else. Regardless of your political leanings installing such software is a really bad idea http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/19/obama_ddos_tool_ruse/ ====================== (quote inserted randomly by Pegasus Mailer) rslade () vcn bc ca slade () victoria tc ca rslade () computercrime org If you believe in your heart that you are right, you must fight with all your might to do it your way. Only dead fish swim with the stream all the time. - Linda Ellerbee http://victoria.tc.ca/techrev/rms.htm http://blog.isc2.org/isc2_blog/slade/index.html http://twitter.com/rslade http://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/author/p1/ http://twitter.com/NoticeBored _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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