Re: Interesting Debka article

[Jonatan B <onatan () gmail com>]

On 5/31/05, Dave Aitel <dave () immunitysec com> wrote:
> http://www.debka.com/article.php?aid=1031
>
> Nine of Israel's top business executives and 11 heads of three leading
> inquiry companies – including Modiin Ezrahi - are in custody suspected
> of complicity in a massive computerized commercial espionage conspiracy.
> ....

This is the biggest case of Industrial Espionage in Israel ever, and I suspect
also in several other countries.
The story rough-lines like this:
An Israeli programmer, living in London, writes a custom Trojan. The Trojan
uploads files to his FTP server. It captures office documents, emails, saved
files etc. I might have the code if you're interested.
The Trojan is sent by mail to the victims. Later it is also sent on CDs with
some commercial propaganda urging them to install it.
The programmer either uses the Trojan to get sensitive material, then sells it
to private detectives, or in other cases is approached by PIs (Of which "Modiin
Ezrahi", literally 'Civilian Intelligence', is the largest) to attack his
victims. Rumor: He also offers it as a commercial software to the police and
other firms.
He implants it at a family member, a writer, and uses it to publish parts of his
upcoming book. The writer complains to the police, the police investigates, and
the tower of cards collapses.
Several major companies in Israel are now accused of stealing information from
competitors, lawyers offices and PR offices.
Some sensitive information of Army-Industry firms was also found on the server.

HOT, Israel's only Cable Services provider, was attacked by YES, Israel's only
Satellite-TV provider. HOT have asked the court to allow them to search
for their documents in YES's IT systems. The court declined:
http://www.themarker.com/eng/article.jhtml?ElementId=%2Fibo%2Frepositories%2Fstories%2Fm1_2000%2Far20050531_01e.xml&AdType=1_A

The Israeli Standards Institute is certain BS17799 would have protected the
victims:
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/582389.html

Random articles:
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/582663.html
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/582391.html
http://www.themarker.com/eng/article.jhtml?ElementId=%2Fibo%2Frepositories%2Fstories%2Fm1_2000%2Frs20050531_04e.xml&AdType=1_A
http://www.themarker.com/eng/article.jhtml?ElementId=%2Fibo%2Frepositories%2Fstories%2Fm1_2000%2Frs20050531_05e.xml&AdType=1_A
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3091900,00.html
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3093020,00.html
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3092630,00.html

Regards,
Jonathan.

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