Regarding Recent Concerns61
To answer the concerns some of our users have shown in the past week concerning the activities of specifically one editor, we’ve decided to release this statement:
As the past clearly shows, one of the main concerns of the ZeroSec admins is user security. You’ll find plenty (plenty is really an understatement) of “warez” related sites out there that either purposefully push malware and virii onto their unsuspecting users, or make use of ads that serve such things because its better for business. I hope you can all see that we take our visitor security extremely seriously, which you can tell from our policy and past dealings with phishing links.
ZeroSec admins don’t intrude on what the editors do outside of ZeroSec related work, so it came as a surprise to us when we found out JordanT92 (also known as JoeyT92) has been stealing login information for all sorts of things by releasing trojaned applications on usenet. The hosting he used to do this (which belongs to a friend of his) got hacked and this information was released by the hacker. While JordanT92’s actions wont have affected ZeroSec users, since this server also contained some ZeroSec posting tools we have now been implicated in this ordeal - which is why we’ve decided to make this public explanation. Mupet0000 although accused in the NFO got roped into this mess because he’s been acquainted with JordanT92 since before they both joined ZS.
We make it our priority to ensure user security, which is why, after an investigation we’ve decided to revoke the editorial privileges and distance ourselves from JordanT92 who we discovered was the coder, virus distributor, and primary person responsible.
ZeroSec Admins,
ReeGed, Untamed & Pandaking
June 29th, 2009 at 9:44 pm
What’s so special about alt.binz? There are tons of very good free clients…
June 29th, 2009 at 11:55 pm
Hardly takes that much talent to wrap up an exe file someone else made and distribute it via people who are too dumb to look after their own security. And if you are dumb enough to get infected it’s your own fault for not taking your security seriously. Scan everything you download. Use more than one security program. Blah blah blah - if you don’t know how to stay secure then you shouldn’t be using the internet.
And for people moaning about donating - no one is forcing you to, so if you are paranoid enough to think it’s a bad thing then don’t donate. Pretty damn simple really. And so the donation meter is over 100% - so what? If the people running the site make an extra $50 who cares? If you don’t like it don’t donate and don’t visit, otherwise you’re just a sad sad troll.
As for the person talked about in this topic (look, forgot his name already) - hope your house burns down, with you in it. On the other hand, I suppose all the film, music and software companies wish the rest of our houses would burn down. Ce la vie.
June 30th, 2009 at 1:19 am
LMAO
leaving his login details in the script what a n00b
just hope he has learnt from this and never bothers to try it again.
For the other guy letting him use his ftp etc.. lets hope you have better friends and not idiots like him (your an idiot too for letting him use your logins)
peace
June 30th, 2009 at 2:33 am
Kudos for the public announcement
June 30th, 2009 at 2:35 am
Wait a minute JordanT92 created a trojan and distributed it through a usenet program to steal login information, while unbeknown to him his friend (Mupet0000) ftp server which was used for storage of the stolen login data was hacked and made public because he accidently left the ftp login details in the script? Phheew that took sometime to work out.
So is JordanT92 now banned from ZerSec? Also if the ftp server contained no ZeroSec data would a blind eye be turned even though ZeroSec users could be at risk?
June 30th, 2009 at 5:36 am
I agree with 34.
People are forgetting that you are doing this for their benefit. I’m sure they would’ve complained had you mentioned this a week earlier without any reliable information. Some people are never satisfied.
As far as the donations go big deal. They ask for people who come here often enough to help pay. It isn’t a demand.
Some of you need to grow up.
June 30th, 2009 at 3:02 pm
@ 53 (zero01): Yeh, I’ve learnt my lesson, the new version is MUCH more secure! And anyway, the website is mine, I didn’t get loaned it, It was mine all along… I put the FTP details in the python script as the previous version uploaded all data to FTP via ftplib, but now it’s all done via POST methods, no more authentication required.
June 30th, 2009 at 10:43 pm
virii…cmon its one thing to try to be 1337, but no one besides kiddies like JordanT92 use that term…
July 1st, 2009 at 4:03 am
fall guy
July 1st, 2009 at 1:04 pm
Logs don’t lie. And log says mupet0000 has been "browsing" collected login data for at least few days. Here you see he was interested in paypal data. You be the judge if that does make him guilty or not. Not making trojan but using poor ppls login data - no way he’s guilty.
July 2nd, 2009 at 10:22 pm
I’m guessing this new phishing method was being used. This is some seriously scary shit, so many people are going to get screwed without ever knowing it.