TESO (Austrian hacker group)
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TESO is a hacker group, which originated in Kashmir. It is active from 2020 to present, and during its peak around 2000,They hacked several times Indian army data and hacked servers.
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Achievements
- In 2000, developed hellkit, the first shellcode generator.[citation needed]
- In 2000, wrote TesoGCC, the first format string vulnerability scanner, and the first comprehensive guide on format string exploitation.[citation needed]
- BurnEye team member is widely believed to be one of the first proper ELF executable crypters.[citation needed]
Quotes
ADM and TESO made almost inappropriately large splashes in the community when they were active. Almost all their exploits were beyond the standard, and at times it seemed they were the ones finding all the new bug-classes. But at their peak, they couldn't have been very large groups. Certainly smaller than the reverse engineering and security group at a good sized IDS/IPS company these days.
— Dave Aitel, CEO and Founder of Immunity, Inc.[1]
Members and name
The name originally was an acronym of the nicknames of the original founders (typo, edi, stanly, oxigen), but as many of the most skilled members joined later, this interpretation quickly became meaningless. Teso originally and during its peak was a small and tightly knit group. A full list of members does not appear to exist, but if public sources can be trusted, at least the following members existed:
- caddis[2]
- edi[3]
- halvar[4]
- hendy[5]
- lorian[6]
- oxigen[3]
- palmers[7]
- randomizer[8]
- scut,[9] published in September 2001[10] Exploiting format strings vulnerabilies paper
- smiler[6]
- skyper[11]
- stealth/S.Krahmer[12]
- stanly[3]
- typo[13] aka Paul Bohm
- xdr/mdr[11]
- zip[6]
See also
- Goatse Security
- w00w00 - A rivaling hacking group. Some research and releases were published together with w00w00 members.
- The Hacker's Choice - Some team-teso members joined THC after TESO was disbanded.
References
- ^ http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/dailydave/2005-q2/0386.html Dave Aitel on TESO
- ^ Source: http://downloads.securityfocus.com/vulnerabilities/exploits/bsdchpass-exp.c
- ^ a b c Source: http://www.trust-us.ch/phrack/phrack/62/p62-0x04_Prophile_on_scut.txt
- ^ Source: http://www.ccc.de/congress/2001/fahrplan/event/255.de.html
- ^ Source: http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=99385173302656&w=2
- ^ a b c Source: http://examples.oreilly.com/networksa/tools/7350854.c
- ^ Source: http://freeworld.thc.org/root/docs/loadable_kernel_modules/p58-0x06.txt
- ^ Source: http://mixter.void.ru/about.html
- ^ Source: http://packetstormsecurity.org/groups/teso/teso-advisory-011.txt
- ^ http://julianor.tripod.com/bc/formatstring-1.2.pdf>Exploiting format strings vulnerabilies
- ^ a b http://packetstormsecurity.org/groups/teso/arpmitm-0.1.tar.gz
- ^ Source: http://packetstormsecurity.org/groups/teso/adv6.tar.gz
- ^ Source: http://packetstormsecurity.org/9909-exploits/dirthy.c