Case study:
Hacker sentenced to 21 months jail in TKBot Trojan horse case, Sophos reports
An American hacker has been sent to jail after using a Trojan horse to break into innocent
internet users’ computers.
Raymond Paul Steigerwalt, from Indiana, has been sentenced to 21 months in jail for his
involvement in an international hacking gang which broke into computers around the world,
including PCs at the United States Department of Defense, with a Trojan horse.
Steigerwalt, 21, was a member of the international “Thr34t-Krew” hacking gang which launched
a Trojan horse designed to break into internet-connected computers. TheTroj/TKBot-A Trojan
horse (also known as the TKWorm) exploited a vulnerability that is found on some Microsoft
IIS web servers.
At least two computers belonging to the Department of Defense were infected and damaged
by the malicious code. Between October 2002 and 7 March 2003, Steigerwalt and other
members of the Thr34t-Krew gang were able to remotely control infected computers without
the knowledge of the computers’ owners
Refrence:Ncert IT
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