posted in Tools & sources on Aug 25th, 2009
As announced some weeks ago the Skype trojan sourcecode will be available for download. You find the source packages in the Tools & sources section if you are the impatient type. The code is simple and straightforward. You have know malware development is no rocket science and if you expect big magic you are at [...]
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posted in Stuff on Aug 25th, 2009
Well, obviously the Megapanzer video is too hot for Vimeo.com too. They’ve decided to remove it from their servers as Youtube did one week ago. It violates their Upload rules. I try to fix it within the next hours. Once again sorry for the inconvenience :/
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posted in News & media on Aug 25th, 2009
Gulli.com invited me for an interview for their online news portal and asked some questions aboug the Skype trojan, trojans in general etc. Enjoy and of course leave comments. Superintendent trojan – A programmer speaks out For about seven years, Ruben Unteregger has worked as a software-engineer for the Swiss company ERA IT Solutions. His [...]
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posted in Stuff on Aug 21st, 2009
Gulli.com invited me for an interview for their online news portal and asked some questions aboug the Skype trojan, trojans in general etc. The interview is in german but I’ll translate it the next days. Enjoy and of course leave comments. Bundestrojaner – ein Programmierer erzählt Ruben Unteregger hat rund sieben Jahre lang als Softwareentwickler [...]
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posted in Stuff on Aug 18th, 2009
According to the email I received yesterday evening the video violates the youtube community rules. They saw no other way but to deactivate it and added the mail a link to the rules page without any further explanations. I guess it was the paragraph about the privacy violation or so. I’m asking myself why I [...]
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posted in Tools & sources on Aug 17th, 2009
Months after the announcement, and weeks in production, the Megapanzer video is finally here, cut, processed and uploaded to youtube! The video shows in seven simple steps how to take over an ebanking session of a victim and which tools you need to accomplish this stunt. The weakest link in the chain is (obviously) not [...]
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posted in News & media on Aug 16th, 2009
This article on the Swiss news paper Sonntagszeitung is from October 2006 but for completeness I decided to add it anyway. Schweizer Behörden testen Spionage-Software Schweizer Strafermittler und das Departement für Umwelt, Verkehr und Kommunikation (Uvek) prüfen den Einsatz von Spionagesoftware zum Abhören von Internettelefonaten. Telecomfirmen und Internetanbieter sollen die als Trojaner bezeichneten Programme auf [...]
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posted in News & media on Aug 16th, 2009
This article on the register is from October 2006 but for completeness I decided to add it anyway. Swiss gov ‘mulls’ spyware to tap VoIP calls The Swiss government is “considering” the use of a spyware application called Superintendent Trojan to eavesdrop on IP telephony conversation, Heise Security reports. Swiss firm ERA IT Solutions said [...]
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posted in News & media on Aug 16th, 2009
This article on h-online is from October 2006 but for completeness I decided to add it anyway. Superintendent Trojan Whilst listening in on normal telephone calls over landlines or mobile phone networks has become a routine procedure, Voice over IP connections frequently present a problem for investigators, especially when the persons being monitored use Skype [...]
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posted in External tools, Tools & sources on Aug 11th, 2009
At BlackHat DC 2009 Moxie Marlinspike demonstrated how to subvert HTTPS with SSLStrip. SSLStrip intercepts HTTP traffic, watches for HTTPS links inside the data stream and maps these HTTPS links to HTTP. Whenever a victim clicks on such a mapped HTTPS link SSLStrip will notice it and act as a HTTP2HTTPS proxy server. All the [...]
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