What a unexpected Christmas present provided, by the identified “Security Watchmen“, to Carders.cc, a criminal forum specialized in trading stolen credit cards, but also to some well know security scene actors such as Exploit-DB.com, BackTrack-Linux.org, Ettercap, Inj3ct0r.com and Free-Hack.com.
The ezine “Owned and Exposed“, how begin to fear security experts, has release his second edition. The previous edition of this online magazine, dating from May 2010, had already targeted Carders.cc and revealed technical and organizational details of this group of pirates.
Contents of this second edition :
- Carders.cc “Owned and Exposed”
The authors of the magazine wanted, when editing the first edition of their magazine, to give a fatal blow to Carders.cc in order to stop their criminal activities. Unfortunately, the attack of May 2010, was not sufficient to stop this forum how came back online few time after to be “rm’ed“. Seven months later, Carders.cc is again a prime target.
All depths of the server hosting the forum Carders.cc are exposed in the magazine, and all administrative accounts are revealed. A copy of the forum database is currently available on Internet. The “Security Watchmen” hoping that this time the message is gone, and that we could see the definitive end of the criminal forum Carders.cc. Otherwise, it is clear that the forum will again be the target in the third edition of the “Owned and Exposed” magazine.
- Inj3ct0r “Owned and Exposed”
Inj3ct0r, for those who do not know this site is a copy of Milw0rm, offering a database of 0day’s and exploits. “Security Watchmen” motivation to attack Inj3ct0r is based primarily on the fact that Inj3ct0r is considered as “lameass wannabe milw0rm kid“, how reveal only XSS attacks (how are considered as low level attacks by the “Security Watchmen“), but also that behind this facade of exploits database a business based on stolen credit card is actually done by Inj3ct0r team.
Again all the depths of the server hosting Inj3ct0r are exposed in the magazine, and all administrative accounts are revealed. A copy of the website database is currently available on the Internet.
- Ettercap “Owned and Exposed”
Ettercap is a software to perform MITM attacks (Man in the Middle). This software exist since 2001 and is used by computer security experts. “Security Watchmen” motivation to attack Ettercap is based primarily on the fact that Ettercap software suite to be detrimental to the security community and that the team in charge of maintaining the software is considering themselves as security experts.
What is disturbing about this hack is that firstly, as the “Security Watchmen” suggest, the Ettercap source code is compromised for about 5 years, and secondly the fact that Ettercap website is hosted at SourceForge. We could assume that all projects hosted at SourceForge are potentially compromise !
Again the depths of the server hosting the Ettercap project are outlined in the magazine, and all administrative accounts are revealed. The list of processes running on the SourceForge server, how is hosting the Ettercap project, reveal that bots have upper hand on this server.
- Exploit-DB and BackTrack Linux “Owned and Exposed”
Exploit-DB is a 0day’s and exploits database, BackTrack Linux is an operating system containing computer security software well used by security experts. “Security Watchmen” motivation to attack Exploit-DB and BackTrack Linux is based primarily on the fact that they think that such projects allow computer criminals to use new ways to commit crimes.
Again the depths of the servers hosting the Exploit-DB and BackTrack Linux are exposed in the magazine, and all administrative accounts are revealed. We should get some clarifications from the BackTrack Linux team on if the distribution was compromised or not.
These attacks targeting sites, well known from the computer security community, will surely create a sense of paranoia until the third edition of the electronic magazine “Owned and Exposed“.
