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My designer friend was watching a livestream, where he clicked a link that infected his OSX Computer at work. He was worried and asked me to inspect the payload
by X4 13y ago
My designer friend was watching a livestream, where he clicked a link that infected his OSX Computer at work. He was worried and asked me to inspect the payload, which was funny, because I only got a blank page. Only modifying my UA-String gave me access to the java exploiting payload, but imagine how they could go undetected by sniffing for more than just the UA-String!
After some investigation I found out that one guy has infected many thousand OSX and Windows PCs and turned them into drones. Now I know how they make money, selling their bot-nets. Kinda disappointed, I thought there is more thought and work required. But you see the point, anybody with enough patience can do that today, the tools are available.
- meowface 13y agoYou might be surprised to hear that many tens of thousands of clueless kids, teenagers, and adults pay for all-in-one kits that host Java drivebys (malicious self-signed Java applets, and Java exploits), redirect visitors of compromised sites to one's Java driveby, infect them, and manage such botnets through fancy Web 2.0 interfaces. And they don't even need (and often do not have) a shred of basic IT knowledge to do any of this, let alone programming knowledge.