Zeus scumbag infects itself, buddies, with rival Trojan A Zeus hacker cabal has infected itself and its colleagues with a rival malware in an act of poetic justice noticed by RSA researcher Lior Ben-Porat. The blackhat developed a custom Zeus panel for the infamous trojan by the same name which was found compromised Ramnit worm. Ben-Porat says the malware muck up happened after …
I can only imagine that awkward knuckle-biting moment when this hacker walks into Friday nights hacker-get-together hobby-club, knowing that everyone else knows, and other hackers just stop talking for a moment, when the room goes dead-silent and the famous 'he's the one'-nod going round while other hackers just size him up and he just *knows* things will never be the same again...
awkward..
A lot of blackhats turn out to be kids who while intellectually very bright in a narrow sphere tend to be naive and lack common sense. Add that to the typical arrogance of the young with the it-wont-happen-to-me-cos-Im-too-smart thought pattern and its hardly a shock they get caught out.
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