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http://ddanchev.blogspot.com/2008/06/icann-and-ianas-domain-names-hijacked.html

FRIDAY, JUNE 27, 2008
“ICANN and IANA’s Domain Names Hijacked by the NetDevilz Hacking Group”
by Dancho Danchez

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “The official domains of ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, and IANA, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority were hijacked earlier today, by the NetDevilz Turkish hacking group which also hijacked Photobucket’s domain on the 18th of June. Zone-H mirrored the defacements, some of which still remain active for the time being.

Read more here - “ICANN and IANA’s domains hijacked by Turkish hacking group”. A single email appears to have been used in the updated DNS records of all domains, logically courtesy of the NetDevilz team - foricann1230@gmail.com

More details will be posted as soon as they emerge.

UPDATE:

The ICANN has restored access to its domains, and as in every other DNS hijacking the correct records will be updated on a mass scale in 24/48 hours.”

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http://www.heise-online.co.uk/security/Backdoor-trojan-exploits-hole-in-Mac-OS-X—/news/111013

“IT security news and services at heise Security UK”

27 June 2008, 11:18

“Backdoor trojan exploits hole in Mac OS X”

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “A tool to exploit a known security hole in OS X has been developed and shared in a Mac hacker forum. The “Applescript Trojan horse template” employs the root exploit that became public last week. The exploit allows attackers to get administrator rights and use them to set up hidden backdoor and spy functions.

Available functions include keylogging, the creation of screenshots and images with an installed camera, and a web front-end for remote maintenance. A VNC server provides remote access to the entire desktop. Once infected, computers can be found again and again via dynamic DNS entries once they connect to the Internet.”

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BLOG:

http://ddanchev.blogspot.com/2008/06/backdoording-cyber-jihadist-ebooks-for.html

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25, 2008
“Backdoording Cyber Jihadist Ebooks for Surveillance Purposes”
by Dancho Danchev

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “It appears that cyber jihadists are striking back at the academic and intelligence community, by binding their propaganda Ebooks with malware, then distributing them across different forums, thanks to a recently analyzed Ebook entitled “The Al-Qaeda network’s timely entrance in Palestine” distributed by the Global Islamic Media Front - hat tip to Warintel.

If it were posted by a newly joined forum member, it would have logically raises the suspicion that it’s in fact intelligence agencies spreading malware infected Ebooks around cyber jihadist forums, but it’s since this one in particular is being distributed by what looks like a hardcore cyber jihadist, it brings the discussion to a whole new level.”