Program automating online jihad found in the wild
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/08/electronic_program_of_jihad_discovered/
By Dan Goodin in San Francisco
The Register
8th November 2007
Security researchers say they have discovered a program that could be
used by Islamic terrorists to launch data attacks against Western
targets.
The "Electronic Program of Jihad," as its creators have dubbed it, asks
for a username and password once it's installed, according to this entry
on the McAfee Avert Labs Blog. The program, quoted as version 3.0, then
tries to join a cyber jihadist website that coordinates the attack.
Loyal users can even score bonus points by referring newcomers.
The revelation comes two weeks after Israeli news website Debkafile
reported calls by an Islamist website for true believers to mount
electronic attacks on "Western, Jewish, Israeli, Muslim apostate and
Shiite websites". Rather than launching the assault through a network of
compromised PCs, the organizers reportedly plan to supply a package
called Electronic Jihad Version 2.0 that volunteers could use to unleash
denial-of-service attacks against the targets.