Posted on 09/16/2010 9:20:57 AM PDT by SmartInsight
The person responsible for the "Here you have" email worm, which wreaked havoc last week on businesses across the United States, may be part of a cyber-jihad group upset over American military presence in Iraq.
The malware author, who uses the handle "iraq_resistance," is believed to be part of the cyber-jihad organization "Brigades of Tariq ibn Ziyad," whose goal is to digitally infiltrate U.S. Army agencies, Joe Stewart, director of malware research at SecureWorks, a network security company, told SCMagazineUS.com on Monday.
Researchers concluded this after determining that a worm launched last month, but on a much smaller scale, was connected to the "Here you have" outbreak, Stewart said.
The binaries to both worms contained a reference to the "iraq_resitance" alias, he said. Further investigation on the internet revealed that that same codename was used to write a 2008 forum post that attempts to recruit people to join the cyber-jihad group.
(Excerpt) Read more at scmagazineus.com ...
The worm was front page news, but I guess the fact that jihadis perpetrated it, is not news, we wouldn't want to upset them... (sarc)
Must be Bush’s fault.
The United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam.
Barack Huessen Obama
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/b/barack_obama_3.html
Beware of Link: E-Mail Virus Plays Havoc With Internet (Sept 9, 2010)
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/09/09/beware-link-e-mail-virus-plays-havoc-internet/
“An e-mail virus swept through the Internet Thursday, snarling traffic and taking down servers at ABC, NASA, Comcast, and Google — and possibly even affecting the Department of Homeland Security.
The virus, called “Here You Have” or VBMania, is a simple Trojan Horse: An e-mail arrives in your inbox with the suggestive subject line “here you have.” The body reads “This is The Document I told you about, you can find it Here” or “This is The Free Download Sex Movies, you can find it Here.”
Click the link in the message and you launch a program that spams the same Trojan Horse out to everyone in your address book, flooding and crippling e-mail servers.”
‘may be part of a cyber-jihad group’
How about some facts, is or isn’t not ‘may be’.
It’s no maybe. they are just hedging:
Hacker Posts Video Claiming ‘Here You Have’ Worm
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/anti-us-hacker-claims-worm/story?id=11624252
The video, which displays only a map of Spain’s Andalusia region and the name of the virus, “Here You Have,” identifies “Iraq resistance” as the leader of the Tarek Bia Ziad Group.
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Even though the YouTube account used to post the video, “iqziad,” is listed as originating from Spain, Atlanta-based security firm SecureWorks said it suspected that “Iraq resistance” is a Libyan hacker who has tried, since 2008, to unite other like-minded hackers in a cyberjihad.
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Joe Stewart, director of malware research at SecureWorks, said the hacker is part of a group called Brigades of Tariq ibn Ziyad. According to messages posted on an Internet forum (the messages been removed but are still cached in Google), the group said it had succeeded in hacking into military computers in the U.S., Germany and Iraq in 2009.
1) Libya. Hmmmmmmm. Lockerbie anyone?
2) Spain. Hmmmmmmm. Vacation anyone?
3) “Chase Website Down” (September 14-15 at least)
http://www.eworldpost.com/chase-website-down-2010-15486.html
Why would they want to? It doesn't further their agenda.
The jihadists are very active over the internet — much more so than than news media reports it.
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