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Anonymous Supporters Tricked Into Installing Zeus Trojan

Trojanised version of the Slowloris tool could have infected thousands of users with the Zeus banking Trojan. Attack started just after FBI raid on Kim Schmitz’s Megaupload file sharing service on piracy charges. Thousands of users were invited to attack industry and Federal sites using DIY DoS software. An opportunistic criminal altered one of the download links to the tool inside a PasteBin ‘how guide’ pointing it to a server hosting the Trojanised tool. Symantec: ‘Not only will supporters be breaking the law by participating in DoS attacks on Anonymous hacktivism targets, but may also be at risk of having online banking and email credentials stolen'”]

Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2131139/anonymous-supporters-tricked-into-installing-zeus-trojan.html

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