Spyware details forced into the open on web
A closely-held software package designed to allow law enforcement agencies to secretly monitor a suspect's computer turned up on an anonymous Web site in the Netherlands Wednesday, along with user manuals, financial information, contracts and invoices apparently stolen from the company that makes the surveillance tool. The manuals released on the Web indicate that D.I.R.T. operates in much the same way as well-known hacker Trojan horses like Back Orifice and Sub Seven, with a covert server, what Codex calls a "bug," arriving at a target's computer wrapped within a seemingly innocuous program. Once the hapless target executes the program, the bug monitors the target's keystrokes and sends the results periodically to the person doing the monitoring via email.D.I.R.T. Spyware Exposed on Web Security Focus, Mar. 14, 2002
