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  Backdoor Found In UnrealIRCd Source Archive

  Posted: June 13th, 2010, 7:28am CEST by timothy

  Tags:  security  

  l_bratch writes "A malicious backdoor was added to the UnrealIRCd source archive some time around November 2009. It was not noticed for several months, so many IRC servers are likely to be compromised. A Metasploit exploit already exists."

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