French Teenager Creates Banking Trojan; Gets Job Offer
Posted by: Timothy Weaver on 04/07/2017 12:13 PM
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Job offer or law enforcement lure?
That is the question that confronts an 18 year old Augustin Inzirillo who created a banking trojan called Nuclear Bot (aka NukeBot). His bot was put up for sale on the dark web for around $2,500 in 2016.
NukeBot was similar to the ZeuS banking trojan in that it was capable of siphoning out passwords and delivering arbitrary content to visitors to banking sites. Inzirillo's claim was that the malware was capable of bypassing the Trusteer Rapport security tool offered to banking customers to thwart trojans.
IBM's refutation of Inzirillo's claim prompted the teenager to release the source code to prove his claim.
Inzirillo's father, Daniel, said the source code was released partially to spite competitors who were marketing his code. “The idea was that they wouldn't be able to sell his software anymore because it was now free for grabs.”
As to the job offer from a recruiter at a technology firm in the U.S. that supposedly thought highly of Inzirillo's coding acumen, Daniel Inzirillo cautioned: “There is a strong possibility that in one or two weeks he's going to be flying to California, and I am concerned that maybe some guy in some law enforcement agency has his sights on him.”
Source: SCMagazine
That is the question that confronts an 18 year old Augustin Inzirillo who created a banking trojan called Nuclear Bot (aka NukeBot). His bot was put up for sale on the dark web for around $2,500 in 2016.NukeBot was similar to the ZeuS banking trojan in that it was capable of siphoning out passwords and delivering arbitrary content to visitors to banking sites. Inzirillo's claim was that the malware was capable of bypassing the Trusteer Rapport security tool offered to banking customers to thwart trojans.
IBM's refutation of Inzirillo's claim prompted the teenager to release the source code to prove his claim.
Inzirillo's father, Daniel, said the source code was released partially to spite competitors who were marketing his code. “The idea was that they wouldn't be able to sell his software anymore because it was now free for grabs.”
As to the job offer from a recruiter at a technology firm in the U.S. that supposedly thought highly of Inzirillo's coding acumen, Daniel Inzirillo cautioned: “There is a strong possibility that in one or two weeks he's going to be flying to California, and I am concerned that maybe some guy in some law enforcement agency has his sights on him.”
Source: SCMagazine
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