“Three new versions, called Fapi, Shaft and Trank, are disclosed
in a paper published today by the programmer known as ‘Mixter’ at
Packet Storm, a site that publishes malicious software so security
professionals can scrutinize it. Mixter is the purported author of
a similar attack tool, Tribe Flood Network, and its sequel,
TFN2K.”
“The newly disclosed versions likely evade programs posted
by the FBI and others to detect TFN and two other publicly known
versions, Stacheldraht and Trinoo.
Another DDOS package called Blitznet also has been publicly
available for at least two months at the Packet Storm site. Mixter
said it was written by someone called ‘phreeon.’ Trinoo was written
by ‘phifli,’ he said. As previously reported, Mixter said
Stacheldraht was written by ‘randomizer.’ “