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Monday, July 21, 2008

Limbo 2 Trojan comes complete with guarantee of invisibility

It might come as a surprise to some that there is an underground economy online which revolves around the sale of malware. However, with botnets for hire by the hour and rootkits to purchase outright such off-the-shelf security nightmares have been the norm for a number of years now. What is unusual about the Limbo 2 Trojan is that it costs so much, topping out at some $1300 for the user license. Yes, without any hint of irony the authors of these malware applications do seek to protect their intellectual property with end user licensing schemes. The fact that for the most part they have stolen the code from someone else and simply adapted it slightly to create a new version is neither here nor there.
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Co-founder of IT Security Thing Ltd, Davey Winder is a three time winner of the Information Security Journalist of the Year award (2006/2008/2010) and received the prestigious Enigma Award for his lifetime contribution to information security journalism in 2011.



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