Bad Guys Use Open Source, Too 84
First time accepted submitter colinneagle writes "Open source has been so successful in giving us software like Linux, Apache, Hadoop, etc., why wouldn't the open source method work with other types of software? Probably no one expected that the criminals behind vast malware trojans would adopt open source methods to make their malware more dangerous, but they have. According to this report from Seculert Research, the makers of Citadel, a variant of the Zeus Trojan are using open source models to hone their code and make the Trojan more dangerous."
Title (Score:5, Funny)
Their grammar's great, too.
Is this a "Captian Obvious" thing? (Score:5, Funny)
...Malware writers are using *gasp* coding to further their goals?!? Horrorz!
Question is... (Score:5, Funny)
Sure but what license are they using? I make sure all my malware is GPL3. None of that BSD licensed malware for me!
Those bad guys do sure are (Score:5, Funny)
Are they do?
Re:because it works? (Score:5, Funny)
Even bounties, it looks like.
Isn't that rather booties? Arrr!
Re:Question is... (Score:5, Funny)
Bad Guys Also Use Closed Source Model! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Question is... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Question is... (Score:2, Funny)
Oh snap, any AV kit finding their crap violates the GPL now.
(as if they didn't yet...)
Remember - GUNs don't kill People... (Score:5, Funny)
GUNs don't kill people, GNUs kill people!
The sarcasm in here... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Need open-source antimalware too (Score:2, Funny)
I'm sure they use commercial software too. Like windows.
They have to test the malware somehow.
Great ground to sue them! (Score:5, Funny)
1. Release a strict GPL-licensed virus (along with source offer and all)
2. Make it infect your target's executables
3. Sue them for license breach!
4. Profit!
See? I did away with those pesky '???' bits!
Nobody expected? (Score:5, Funny)
The author is right, nobody would have ever thought that the kind of people who lurk in the computer underground would ever use open source tools or methods to develop their malware. We all thought that "those people" were paying Microsoft for copies of Visual Studio and writing all of their code based explicitly on MSDN code samples.