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British Research Shows 300 to 400 Creditcard Sales a Night

Wednesday, April 19th, 2006

British newspaper The Times had done a research on the sale of illegal creditcard information of British citizens.

According to The Times between 300 and 400 creditcard numbers are sold each night of British citizens. It is mostly gangs from Eastern Europe and South East Asia who are involved in this type of criminality.

The gangs use IRC channels to sell the information. A creditcard number is worth 1$ and a creditcard number together with the security number is worth between 3$ and 5$.

The creditcard information is usually obtained by compromising websites where customers have used their creditcards to pay.

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Tags: Hack, IRC, Scum
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Rootkits Connect to IRC Directly

Saturday, April 8th, 2006

Rootkits for Windows are the ‘hot’ thing among certain groups of people who like to keep their practices hidden on the computers of unknowing others.

Rootkits work in such ways that they can hide their processes from the user, making it hard to detect the rootkit, let alone remove it from the system. Although a rootkit in itself can be hidden form the user, often a rootkit is not enough to perform the tasks the malicious user wants accomplished. Providing a FTP server, connecting to IRC to receive commands and sort like features are still provided by separate software which can be detected and show a possible rootkit installed.

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Tags: Botnets, Hack, IRC
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Australian Man Charged with DDoS to IRC Networks

Wednesday, March 22nd, 2006

A 22 year-old man from Victoria, Australia has been arrested in Melbourne yesterday. He has been charged with several DDoS attacks which includes attacks he performed towards IRC Networks.

It was inititally the Belgian police who tipped the Australian police about the man. But also ISPs in United States, Singapore and Austria were affected by the DDoS which took place from botnets.

“Bots and bot networks continue to be of concern and are linked … to a range of other malicious activity including identity theft and spam,” said Mr Zuccato, from the Australian High Tech Crime Centre.

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Tags: Botnets, DDoS, Hack, IRC, Scum
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Undernet Introduces Chanfix

Monday, March 13th, 2006

Rumors have been going around for a while already on Undernet about the introduction of a Chanfix service introduction. A bot with the nick chanfix was online, but with a realname “Chanfix is not yet available on Undernet.”

Yesterday, Undernet officially announced the new service with a network wide notice inviting users to join #Class and learn about the new service:

-LiveEvent- The UnderNet User Committee will be presenting a LiveEvent concerning ChanFix for users of the UnderNet and IRC. To attend, please type /join #Class now. Thanks, and please do not reply ;)

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Tags: Network Addons, Undernet
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Happy Bot Day!

Monday, March 13th, 2006

After valentines day, mothers’ day, secretary day (got to get me one) and you-know-what-else day, we also have bot day!

Not sure what organization or person is behind the invention of this one, but heck, bots deserve all the recognition they can get! Performing un-thankful jobs of maintaining statistics, opping/voicing users, setting topics and a whole range of other tasks we make them able to with expanding them with scripts 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Except of course, for those moments where the shell is down or the wrong process is killed …

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Tags: Eggdrop, IRC, Software
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