I think calling softpedia "press" is an insult to every real journalist.
The fact that they're calling the bot "tsunami" just proves their incompetence. The bot isn't called tsunami, it's called kaiten and it's been open source for more than a decade.
Doesn't look like they just added a new function called tsunami to me.
>Selling the forum's database for a meager $85 is a sign of their lack of vision. The group seems to have mishandled the entire hack, opting to distribute a silly IRC DDoS bot instead of more dangerous and lucrative malware like Bitcoin miners or banking trojans.
Stupid speculation by writer.
Linux Mint remains compromised despite the current events, it's rather unlikely that kaiten is used as a DDoS bot instead of just a stager to execute shell commands on the affected computers. The presence of DoS commands is meaningless, the only reason kaiten is still used today is because it runs everywhere so it seems fair to assume that that'd be why the attacker opted to just use it instead of writing their own. (No real benefit to that here)
Also, bitcoin mining stopped being lucrative ages ago.
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>One person seems to have bought the hackers' files and dumped the forum's config file on Hacker News discussions thread.
Lmao. Slam dunk. Except for insult to journalism: mainstream press has been quantity over quality for some time now. It's all shit minus the rare few that still practice the real thing.
The fact that they're calling the bot "tsunami" just proves their incompetence. The bot isn't called tsunami, it's called kaiten and it's been open source for more than a decade.
https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/25575/kaiten.c.html
They also managed to confuse FTP and HTTP
>the hackers have only altered the man.cy [https://gist.github.com/Oweoqi/31239851e5b84dbba894] file, where they've added a new function called tsunami.
Doesn't look like they just added a new function called tsunami to me.
>Selling the forum's database for a meager $85 is a sign of their lack of vision. The group seems to have mishandled the entire hack, opting to distribute a silly IRC DDoS bot instead of more dangerous and lucrative malware like Bitcoin miners or banking trojans.
Stupid speculation by writer.
Linux Mint remains compromised despite the current events, it's rather unlikely that kaiten is used as a DDoS bot instead of just a stager to execute shell commands on the affected computers. The presence of DoS commands is meaningless, the only reason kaiten is still used today is because it runs everywhere so it seems fair to assume that that'd be why the attacker opted to just use it instead of writing their own. (No real benefit to that here)
Also, bitcoin mining stopped being lucrative ages ago.
edit: >One person seems to have bought the hackers' files and dumped the forum's config file on Hacker News discussions thread.
I neither bought nor sold the data.