Phatbot author arrested (HL2 leaker)

MythicaL · May 16, 2004, 07:07 PM

Phatbot author caused large damage

One week ago the arrested presumed Phatbot Entwicker Axel G. respectively "Ago" was obviously working at full capacity with the programming of the Trojaners. It time for various activities remained, about break-downs in stranger of systems. After searches of heise on-line "Ago" was considerably involved in the spectacular source code theft of the PC play Halflife 2. Indications for its co-operation are even in publicly accessible Chatlog files.

In September 2003 the code in the InterNet, geklaute by servers of the US-American Halflife manufacturer valve, had been published. Valve does not have the long expected play until today into the sales to give . When indicated reason for the fact that the SOURCE code did not only betray the most important bases and software techniques, but also an inadvertent knowledge jump provided for Cheatern, which want to provide advantages opposite other players in such Multiplayer Games. After information of heise on-line numbered US-American determination authorities the developed damage on more than 100 million US dollar.

Also German enterprises consider formulating demands for payment of damages against Axel G.. The Karlsruher Provider Schlund&Partner for example became victim of a Phatbot test run: "since at the end of of February we had schlund.net a strongly growing number of HTTP post office inquiries to our enterprise addresses and einsundeins.de determined", said to firm speaker Andreas bricklayer heise on-line. "these inquiries did not come from a Browser, and their structure referred strongly to the Phatbot/Agobot worm." Each Request contained 200 KByte of useless data. Afterwards it turned out that Phatbot in this way determines the InterNet range of the landlord, whom he infected with a "speed test in such a way specified".

Throat had rather fast succeeded it to filter the Phatbot Requests. "we would not have gepatcht our Web servers, by the Request alone in March about three Terabyte at detailed data garbage would not have accumulated", so bricklayers. The Provider registered appropriate HTTP inquiries of approximately 750,000 different IP addresses. At least so many PCS are thus infected of the worms Agobot3 or Phatbot already. Virus experts estimate the number of the stricken systems even at well over one million.

Throat did not let it be based on this realization. "Stutzig made us that it was under the IPs a Linux Rootserver gehosteter of us, from which a Windows worm come should", reported bricklayers. "we got permission from the customer concerned for looking at us its computer. There we found the current source text of the Agobot3-Wurms as well as further information, which pointed on the fact that the worm was spread by this system." Throat conveyed the collected data finally to the kriminalpolizei and refunded an announcement approximately unknown.

Ev!L-aLphA · May 16, 2004, 07:45 PM

haah i beat u :P i got it to the news before u mauhahaha

MythicaL · May 16, 2004, 09:18 PM

Dammit! You suck!!

***craig5320*** · May 17, 2004, 07:45 PM

Now now

MythicaL · May 17, 2004, 09:04 PM

It's cool Craig, me and Ev!L go back some time from the Steam forums

*cough* Steam forums SUCK *cough*

Ev!L-aLphA · May 17, 2004, 09:40 PM

ahah ya dont worry we r just jokin :P

jonis · May 18, 2004, 08:22 AM

Go get them all!

MythicaL · May 18, 2004, 08:31 AM

Nice sig jonis... I was gonna do something like that, but I didn't know how to crop the image so it fits into one of those three boxes.

jonis · May 18, 2004, 08:47 AM

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Originally posted by JJohnson1988
Nice sig jonis... I was gonna do something like that, but I didn't know how to crop the image so it fits into one of those three boxes.

Thanx JJohnson, it was my first attempt at it.