Hackers resurrect notorious attack toolkit

Neosploit, the notorious hacker exploit kit that some thought had been retired months ago, has not only returned from the dead, but is responsible for a dramatic increase in attacks, a security researcher claimed Thursday. "Neosploit's back," said Ian Amit, director of security research at Aladdin Knowledge Systems Inc.

The accounts of its demise last summer had been a ruse, he argued. "When you're feeling that kind of heat," Amit said, referring to the attention Neosploit had received from both researchers and authorities, "you want to shake those guys off your back. [The talk about quitting] only helped them go under the radar."

In July researchers at RSA's FraudAction Research Labs said that they had evidence that the creators of Neosploit were abandoning the business. For proof, RSA quoted a going-out-of-business message said to have originated with Neosploit's authors.