Bad Guys Are Use Open Source, Too
SOURCE: SLASHDOT • 2012-02-11
First time accepted submitter colinneagle writes Open source has been so successful in giving us software like Linux, Apache, Hadoop, etc., why wouldn't the open source method work with other types of software? Probably no one expected that the criminals behind vast malware trojans would adopt open source methods to make their malware more dangerous, but they have. According to this report from Seculert Research, the makers of Citadel, a variant of the Zeus Trojan are using open source model... read more »