July 27th, 2010 by lhaasThis sounds like some kind of double agent thing. “These vulnerabilities would allow security researchers to ‘hack the web hackers,’” says Mr. Oudot.
While some cyber criminals handcraft their own attack tools, many others take advantage of the so-called malware kits that are widely available online.
These programs bundle into one convenient package everything the budding cyber criminal needs to get started.
French computer security researcher Laurent Oudot from Tehtri Security has analysed the inner workings of many of these malware kits to see how secure they are.
Mr Oudot found that that many of the kits, which have names such as Neon, Eleonore and Sniper, sport significant loopholes that are relatively easy to exploit.
