Although botnet masters increasingly use platforms other then IRC to command their zombie networks, it remains the biggest platform in use to date.
These botnets are being used by malicious users to perform DDoS attacks, collect personal data such as banking info and creditcard details and for example to use as a base to send spam. The machines used in the botnets are usually compromised home PC’s.
No, no, IRC-Junkie won’t go into politics. This is about a game, trust me! The users of IRC that go back a few years might remember the game Tanks for mIRC. Development was halted for quite some time, but recently the game has gotten a new share of fans.
“It has become a success on Beirut network in early 2006 when I have included the game in my script which is used by the majority of the users. And since 2005 we reached around 18.000 downloads which has boosted the tanks players,” said Stefano, network founder, in a reaction to IRC-Junkie.
The Beirut network celebrated its 2nd anniversary on the 21st of this month. “I’m glad to see it surviving two winters so far” network founder Stefano explained to IRC-Junkie. “Definitely it has become the main middle eastern IRC network today. But it wasn’t easy”. The event was celebrated in Beirut with toast, dinner, champagne, cakes and fireworks on a party with 164 people.
The network was founded after Stefano was experiencing problems on the former network of his choice Undernet. “I had a big channel on undernet.. #beyrouth with an average of 130 users sized and the channel site was 2000 members within one year only and 1500 profiles with photos.. I noticed that all these people had to do nothing with undernet but joined there just because of our friendship and atmosphere.”
A couple from Portland, U.S.A., traveled to Woodland, Washington, to trade marijuana for sex with a 5-year-old girl, but instead ended up being arrested.
Christopher Dudley, 26, and Rhea Hamm, 22, chatted in an IRC channel of a top10 SearchIRC listed network with the father of the girl, who in reality was an undercover police officer.
After a series of chats Dudley agreed with the ‘father’ to have oral sex with the girl and to make photos. Also his wife would take part in the abuse. In a chat Dudley told the ‘father’ he told Hamm before the marriage of his “fetish”, “but she said she loved me and didn’t care what I was into.”
Recently a group of AustNet admins split of from the network to form a new network named AustIRC. IRC-Junkie finds out the reasons these admins decided to split of.
“You may of have recently heard that AustNet.org is shutting down, we can confirm that this is not true. Unfortunately, various members of our admin team decided that they wanted to seperate from the network and fork off to start their own network”, AustNet admin Ryan announced on the AustNet website. “… we do not approve of was the way in which this was done, and their trickery through FUD to get users to move to their new network. Therefore, the word on the street that you may of have heard that we were shutting down was simply false.”
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