If a person simply keeps to AVI, MPG, MP3 files, the chances of infection are reduced, but applications and games sincerely do have chances of taking out your computer. Then again, I often wonder if Microsoft updates uses this same technology to enable back doors so they have the future ability to take control / spy on your computer. Much of what goes on is certainly unseen.

The Pirate Bay however is a better site to find torrents. Not so easily exploitable, lol

http://www.tepiratebay.com

so nothing wrong with that …

He who sleeps with hyenas etc….

Actually Mr. Anonymous I’ve already mad the only meaningful post I plan to make in this thread. It’s on page 2. As for the name, It’s short for Mennez. Google it.

This entire fiasco is a joke though, the kid didn’t hack much, and he’s not a script kiddie. He’s a con-man with some network knowledge.

And in response to the post a ways back that said social engineering wasn’t the proper term, I’m sorry. The English Language has things called “Synonyms” where two words or terms mean exactly the same thing. Like “Fish” and “Aquatic Invertebrate”. “Social Engineering” is just a more technical way of saying he pulled a “Confidence Job”.

Other than that, I pretty much said everything I wanted to say in my first post.

-Nez

-Nez
”

And yet another person posts an off-topic post and makes no reference to the articles content.

Oh wait, that’s what ur complaining about.

Nez is a stupid sounding name. Is that what they call you at the psych institute?

-Nez

“Mininova has been the delivery vector for many of these new approaches to malware, virus and general system disruption”

The Pirate Bay and Mininova are the single biggest sources for PPI malware. The most sophisticated attackers bundle a PPI malware .exe into an application and encrypt it using LuLz Cryptor or Redemptions File Binder V2 which both use a unique encryption key for every single time they bundle/encrypt a file – this renders them Fully Undetectable (FUD) to all virus/malware scanners when they are scanned. Because the bundled PPI .EXE is updated everyday in many cases (depending on vendor) virus/malware scanners cannot detect them at execution time either because theyre not updated fast enough.

The ultimate form of this attack is to bundle a downloader into the target application (and encrypt it etc. still). Once this has been installed the PPI executable is downloaded onto the target machine on a regular basis (daily or hourly).

The Pirate Bay and Mininova are THE PREMIER targets for these attackers – another reason why it’s a bad idea to use public trackers. THink I’m making this up? See the newbie guide on how to infect users with a PPI executable here:

http://www.pay-per-install.org/pay-per-install/380-guide-getting-started-ppi-start-2-finish.html

That’s the complete amateur, newbie guide (it’s very easy) – when you add encryption to the bundling process and make innocent looking torrewnt uploads good luck – it will be a long time until thats taken down. Read some more from this wonderful forum if you dont believe me on this.

Don’t be stupid enough to think that you can spot the files bundled with malware – the way they are bundled means often it’s impossible for users to pinpoint where the malware came from.

Give us the details and we wll find out who it was. We have a high reputation in bringing the facts up.

One of the vectors that it has been using with torrents is a video feature, or DRM or decryption execution. The script doesn’t contain a virus, it executes a vbs script to download the virus and malware in section to escape detection.
The dns attack prevents the use of most security sites (by assigning a different IP to significant names. go.google.com which is the redirect vector for google points to something else entirely.

oh yes, all these changes are also in the registry which has been altered so that administrators or equivalent classes can not alter the registry. Anything that uses dll’s that have been redirected and no longer exist (altered registry) will generate a blue screen with a post-reboot dos level commands.

This hacker group is very smart. I doubt if a single hacker could compromise as many servers as are being used as resources in these attacks. Mininova has been the delivery vector for many of these new approaches to malware, virus and general system disruption

http://www.aquariumfish.me

Hahaha.

You know, I can’t help but picture you typing that from your parent’s basement. Irony FTW.” ”

Irony indeed – and for all you know I may be doing just that. However I’m not spouting shit about “po-po” and suggesting that “police aint justice in my world” and making asperions to “bitches” and “snitches” like I’m some hoed-out street niggah claiming “reee – spect” from the “strizzeeets” though am I, so even if I was it’s still less pathetic than that moronic attempt at communicating to others about beefed up and gangster and tough they are (without realising it’s as apparent to all reading that they’re just insecure little scumbags with a low self-image that feel a compulsive need to prove themselves to others by imitating their “hardest” role models they can find of course. Bet my life savings they’re 12-16 year old middle-class white kids who are pussy’s in RL)

dan
http://apps.jooopa.net

“social engineer” is just a wanky term used to make people sound more interesting and accomplished than they are.

It’s just a web 2.0 euphemism for “con man” or “confidence trickster.”

The only difference is the l33t ego.

Hacking is assuming control of or gaining access to any computer you do not own. The two most common ways to do this are brute forcing stuff (I KraKt Y0uR Pa55) and Social Engineering (I BurIBeD Y0uR Fw3Ndz).

In this case the whole scenario was social engineering: Get Flippy’s IRL pic, name and Lic. #, photoshop it onto a driver’s license, tell the domain host that the password needed reset.

The major felonies here are hacking an unauthorized computer, identity theft, and forging a government issued ID, which altogether bring hefty fines and jail time.

The biggest problem with egotistical script kiddies is that they have to get recognition for their deeds. If he had gone to a public library, ditched the ads and forum, and neglected to gloat, he would have gotten away with it. But alas, a huge number of the hackers out there today are exactly this kind of demented prick.

@16
Exactly.

Peace,
Nez

Roze

Hahaha.

You know, I can’t help but picture you typing that from your parent’s basement. Irony FTW.

But we’re not all tryhard criminals trying to be “gangster” or whatever the fu_ck your failing at. Another thing that makes this comment of your more idiotic is as far as I can tell the hacker is unknown at the moment. Next you’ll be telling us that if someone you knew got murdered you would go out and murder the person who did it.

“hence, i believe the correct justice is to use our abilitites “hacking” to get the guy back. i say flippy talks to this bitch and hacks the shit out of him.”

People who live in the real world, and don’t have an attitude problem whilst living with their parents still, prefer to use the authorities to work for them – that’s what we pay taxes for. People with your attitude will get jacksh!t done and waste a whole lot of their own time and energy.

“p.s. it kind of seems like this idiot hacked from home since he had over 5 hours of work put into it, plus direct contact with flippy,”

Neither of those reasons give any indication of where he was and hacking 101 says use a proxy of some type.

“and i doubt this foo is that smart to have thought about where he was.”

Oh no – because people conducting illegal activities never think about that…

“Get em. but then again…give him some props. kudos mr. “hacker.”

Only the truly retarded would see hacking a website that they own as something to give “some props” over like it’s some tryhard street thug’s
party where everyon’s saying “yo” and giving “mad respect”.

“come on guys we all hacked at one point in our lives. maybe not like this much of a dick, but not to far from it. :p”

Most people haven’t a clue about hacking fullstop. Apparently you think it’s really cool to pretend your a hacker which says some things about you. Young, insecure, looking to forge an identity by pretending to be really cool in blog comments.

@40 “…We all pirate just about everyday, and we’d be pretty pissed if someone reported us. Do we report people who post up torrents full of viruses? Well yes, but not to the pop-pop. Why? Its just not right man. Hack his ass off and then be even. He won, now get some revenge and then everyone is square.”

Ditto young, insecure, trying to be gangster etc. You’re even more moronic with your daft “I would’nt get authorities on his ass because I wouldn’t like that” line and your vigilante attitude which again fails to take into account that the hacker is so far unidentified (hackers usually are) and the use of the word po-po (you spelt it wrong) which clearly tags you as an insecure r3tard using gangster talk and talking like your a petty criminal.

Both of you come out of this looking really pathet!c

I agree completly. We all pirate just about everyday, and we’d be pretty pissed if someone reported us. Do we report people who post up torrents full of viruses? Well yes, but not to the pop-pop. Why? Its just not right man. Hack his ass off and then be even. He won, now get some revenge and then everyone is square.

P2p is for pedophiles only.

you shold all be sent to jail for stealing

etc etc.

goddamn it people/bots grow up.

Roze