[ad] Competition time again! As you know we started the Darknet Commenter of the Month Competition on June 1st 2007 and it’s been running since then! We have just finished the twelfth month of the competition in May and are now in the thirteenth, starting a few days ago on June 1st – Sponsored by […]
Archives for 2008
New Zlob Trojan Alters Your Router Settings
[ad] Another new development in the malware arena, this new version of Zlob will actually log onto your router and change the DNS settings to hijack your traffic. Pretty interesting approach and it will work because 99% of people won’t change the default password on their routers. Let’s face it, have you changed it? A […]
Virus Variant Extorts You by Encrypting Your Files
[ad] Malware authors are getting sneaky again, in the latest turn of events they have started encrypting your files and holding them at ransom! You have to pay up to get the ‘decryptor’ and get access to your files again. This is pretty dangerous…and cunning too. It’s not easily broken either, they are using RSA […]
OSWA Assistant – Wireless Hacking & Auditing LiveCD Toolkit
The OSWA-Assistant is a no-Operating-System-required standalone toolkit which is solely focused on wireless auditing. As a result, in addition to the usual WiFi (802.11) auditing tools, it also covers Bluetooth and RFID auditing. Using the toolkit is as easy as popping it into your computer’s CDROM and making your computer boot from it! This toolkit […]
Metasploit Site Hijacked by ARP Poisoning Attack
[ad] Crackers briefly hijacked hacking tools website Metasploit.com on Monday. Metasploit is an advanced open-source exploit development platform used by most pen-testers. A tool we often mention here on Darknet. On Monday the site was redirected to a page announcing the site was “hacked by sunwear ! just for fun“, as recorded by Sunbelt Software. […]