Comment: Re:Who? (Score 5, Funny) 250
She is the most famous pilot ever
She is in no way Snoopy.
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She is the most famous pilot ever
She is in no way Snoopy.
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Friday (UNN) — Russian hackers have accepted €800,000 in donations from customers of Nordea, Sweden's largest bank, after a sophisticated "phishing" campaign recruited customers into downloading a Trojan horse program that recorded their account login details.
The Russians had looked up the definition of "hacker" in the Jargon File and been inspired to leverage the creative power of open source Free Software. The first campaign took place in August 2006 and was detected a month later, having affected around 250 Nordea customers.
The emails claimed to be from the Nordea Open Trojan Foundation, telling recipients to install an anti-spam and donation tool. Their computers were then infected by the Trojan HaxDoor.RMS.w32, which installs itself in C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32 and sends your passwords to its creators, but only after you have read through and accepted the GNU General Public License and checked the README file for known problems. The email also included full source code.
Swedish police traced the attacks to Russia by looking at the contact details, including address and phone number, included in the README. They have filed over 100 bugs on the creators' SourceForge project and joined the mailing lists on the grass-roots marketing and publicity site SpreadHaxDoor.com.
A Nordea spokesman said the attacks have "quietened down" after the initial influx last Autumn. "We are constantly looking at the security of our online banking and many different measures are taken. We are updating our systems behind the scenes. Many already run on enterprise Linux distributions, but we will be moving desktops to Linux as well for more efficient funds transfer with less reverse engineering required, and may recommend that our customers do the same."
The Trojan only affects computers running Windows. "For unsupported platforms, we have an 'honor system' which gives our details so you can send some money in," said a spokesman for the hacker group. "We hope this will help and encourage contributors interested in porting the Trojan to other operating environments."
how do the scammers get to their money (assuming some people are silly enough to pay) without the possibility of being traced back ?
Usually they use different 3rd parties, don't tell them where the money is comig from or where it's going, and have them take the fall if they get caught.
I hope someone sues under FOIA.
And they will receive a heavily (if not completely) redacted document and be told that it was edited in the name of "national security". It's the new way around the FOIA.
Anyone who quotes Florian Mueller as if he were anything other than a shill at this stage of the game is full of it.
"When someone reports your allegedly illegal porn to the FBI, of course you take action to keep the FBI from taking down all WMF sites and arresting people."
It turns out the needed action was 0. Larry is trolling for attention again.
Do the obvious: beat them at their own game! A superior vision, with an educated, thoughtful and gentle guiding hand, will surely win out.
God grant us the serenity to accept the things we cannot change, courage to change the things we can, and wisdom to know the difference.