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Extortion failed - Anonymous posts Symantec source code
Tom Espiner, ZDNet UK | February 8, 2012 11:15 AM PST
Anonymous activists have released source code for PCAnywhere onto the Pirate Bay file-sharing website on Tuesday and the BitTorrent link was included in a post to the AnonymousIRC Twitter account, which has been used to publicize the activist group's claims in the past.

"Symantec can confirm that the source code is legitimate," the company said. "Be advised, we also anticipate Anonymous to post the rest of the code they have claimed have in their possession. So far, they have posted code for the 2006 version of Norton Internet Security and PCAnywhere. We also anticipate that at some point, they will post the code for Norton Antivirus Corporate Edition and Norton Systemworks."

In negotiations between a purported Symantec employee called 'Sam Thomas' and a hacker called 'YamaTough', who claimed to be a member of the Lords of Dhamaraja activist group, which is associated with Anonymous, YamaTough appeared to be blackmailing Symantec for cash to destroy stolen source code, and the Symantec appeared to offer Yamatough $50,000 to do it.

For more on this story, read Anonymous activists release PCAnywhere source code on ZDNet UK.


http://www.zdnet.com/news/extortion-failed-anonymous-posts-symantec-source-code/6343313

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Symantec said it was a sting operation, the Symantec "employee" was a law enforcement office. YamaTough said he entered the negotiations, in order to make Symantec look even more stupid. Both sides were trying to string the other along, neither side, allegedly, had any intention of paying / taking the money...

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