UPDATED 15:47 EDT / MARCH 09 2012

NEWS

Anonymous Unleashes Symantec Antivirus 2006 Source Code

Today, The Pirate Bay came to index a torrent containing the leaked source code of Symantec Norton Antivirus 2006 after a long, strange journey including hackers, intrigue, and (failed) police stings.

The entire thing started in January when a hacker with the handle Yama Tough threatened via Twitter to release the code. Then 1.27 gigabytes of data were released by said hackers after an attempted sting failed and that source code was revealed to be from Symantec’s PCAnywhere—which Symantec scrambled to patch their most recent version to make sure their customers wouldn’t suffer.

Now the code released is thought to actually be the originally threatened Symantec Norton Antivirus 2006.

The announcement came via the user @AnonymouStun on Twitter and included a URL to The Pirate Bay where the torrent could be had that contains the source code.

The total torrent download is 1.07GB and appears to include the source code for a number of Symantec products that range across platforms Windows, Unix, and Netware.

Also found in the torrent file is a note calling for the release of arrested LulzSec hackers, who had been taken in an international hacker sweep this week. Of course, media outlets are noting that one hacker member of LulzSec is missing from the list of “to be released hackers,” and that’s Sabu—the leader of LulzSec and well-known turncoat informing for the FBI.

This may be the beginning of a long adventure of leaks, hacks, defacements, DDoS attacks, and other cybervandalism and cyberwarfare by the hactivist collective Anonymous in regards to the arrests of the LulzSec hackers. Already, the downing of the Vatican website on Wednesday and the defacement of the Panda Security website have been used to promote anti-FBI (and Sabu) sentiments over those arrests.


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