rootkit is gone

For the last week or so, I haven't been able to connect to removed link , and can't find any news about the suddden silence. I know in the past that some people have tried to shut them down because they believed that the site was only for blackhats. From the postings there, there were as many, if not more, researchers and other whitehats that used the site to keep up with the newly released exploits and anti-exploits without having to dig through ICQ chatrooms and underground message boards.

Anyone know what's up at removed link Did the CIA shut them down, or am I just being paranoid. Maybe Homeland Security was afraid someone might try to download a rootkit and try to install it...

TIA

 

While I don't have any inside information, I'd tend to lean towards paranoid. Why wouldn't they as likely be unavailable simply because they didn't pay a hosting fee, exceeded subscribed capacity, or are moving a server. Just my opinion....

Blue

or as nick more authoritatively noted, a DDoS attack

 

This is so upsetting to my beautiful mind. If the attackers identities are known why is this cyberterror allowed to continue?

Cant someone, like, use the patriot act to secretly fly em all to another country an have em tortured or something?

 

Thanks for finding out the reason the website is unreachable. I, too, develop software for preventing and removing such malware as can be found on the site, but as a quick google will turn up many sites offering the rootkits and other hacking tools, I didn't think that mentioning the site by name would be a problem.

If you followed the site, there were interesting 'contests' where one person would post an exploit, and a few days later, another would post a way to block the exploit, and so on. Most of the code was so complicated that script kids couldn't make use of it, other than to crash their kernels as they tried to use it.

Much like military warfare, knowing as much as you can about your "enemy" without relying on guesswork (I guess that includes recent examples of our own intelligence services) is extremely important in a conflict that continually evolves new strategies on each side. That's why most of the security researchers I work with used the web to help anticipate the next generation of exploits.

BTW, as of this posting, the 'redacted' website is still unreachable.

 

Hi,

There is many informations on underground sites, but we have remember that we're on a Defense and OFFICIAL site.
There is an italian site where we can find and download all the rootkits (windows/unix/solaris/Linux) and there is also no reason to link it ~removed link~

Regarding the subject, Nicks give the right info: ~removed link and the Hacker Defender site have been the target of a DDOS attack by the Atamasoft group for obscur reasons.

More info on ~removed link~

And as it was said, there is no intervention of the government agencies: they have many others things to do!

Regards

Links removed, clickable or not, they are against our TOS to be posted - snapdragin

 

Hi kareldjag,

IDG has reported on the story here (including some statements from Greg Hoglund): NetworkWorldFusion: Rootkit Web sites fall to DDoS attack.

Nick