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Three Dronerunners Arrested

Wednesday, June 28th, 2006

A 63-year-old from England and a 28-year-old man in Scotland, and a 19-year-old man in Finland (all said to be member of the M00P online group) have been arrested and charged of “an international conspiracy to infect computers using viruses attached to unsolicited commercial e-mail,” a spokesman of the English police said.

The groups’ activities were mainly directed at businesses in the U.K. of which computers were being infected with one of three virusses: Stinx, Breplibot or Rykanos. Once infected, the virus would try and hide itself using features from Sony BMG digital rights management or other DRM software.

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Tags: Botnets, Hack, IRC
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Cracker Creates Havoc at Freenode

Monday, June 26th, 2006

Last Saturday a user who was using the nick ratbert has been creating havoc after he gained the password of Freenode’s admin Robert Levin, aka lilo.

Once gained access he kill’ed and klined staff of the network, delinked servers and send out a global notice and attempted to abuse a mIRC DCC exploit.

-ratbert- I am a fat asshole, who loves abuse, die

-ratbert- DCC SEND YOUAREALLJUDENLOL

Eventually, also network owner lilo was killed by ratbert; * lilo has quit (Killed by ratbert (die ))

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Tags: freenode, Hack, IRC, Scum
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Girls Receive Up To 25 Times More Malicious Chat

Wednesday, May 10th, 2006

The University of Maryland conducted a survey with a result we probably all knew the outcome from in advance: woman and girls on IRC receive up to 25 times more sexually oriented chat requests then their male counterparts.

When using a nick that resembled a female name, the researchers received an average of 163 malicious requests per day, while chatting with a nick that did not show their gender only 4 to 25 times a day.

The females also received more files and links then their male counterparts in the research.

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Tags: IRC
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DDoS’er Convicted to 5 Years Jail

Tuesday, May 9th, 2006

Jeanson James Ancheta, 20, of Downey, California, of which we reported about his arrest here, and him pleading guilty here, has heard his sentence from United States District Judge R. Gary Klausner in Los Angeles.

Judge Klausner, who characterized Ancheta’s crimes as “extensive, serious and sophisticated,” has sentenced him to 57 months in jail. After he completes his jail time, he will serve three years of supervised release. In this time his access to computers and the Internet will be limited. He will also have to pay 15000$ USD damages to the Weapons Division of the United States Naval Air Warfare Center in China Lake and the Defense Information Systems Agency, and all his profits from the activities including a BMW have been forfeited.

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Tags: Botnets, DDoS, Hack, IRC, Scum
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Blitzed Open Proxy Monitor Shuts Down

Sunday, May 7th, 2006

The Open Proxy Monitor which has been provided by the Blitzed IRC network has been shut down. The maintainer of the Blitzed OPM project Andy Smith, nicknamed grifferz, announced the closure earlier today in this email.

OPM was in use by IRC networks to check incoming connections for open proxies, often a sign of being a floodbot, drone or otherwise infected with spyware or virusses.

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Tags: IRC, Network Addons
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