14 DAY TRIAL // The speculations spread by the Israeli news service Debkafile saying that terrorists plan to attack the financial websites on November 11 appear to be fake as the application used for the assault is not so well-developed. It was said that the Islamic extremists intend to attack the western pages using a software tool called the "Electronic Program of Jihad" which was especially designed for this goal. Francois Paget of security company McAfee received the application and provides more information about it. So read the following lines and you'll understand why it's only a fake warning.
First, the reports sustained the hackers intend to use version 2.0 of "Electronic Program of Jihad" but the McAfee official received a sample of the 3.0 release. Why would they choose to use an older program since a newer version is available? A later release is more likely to help you reach your target and it also corrects bugs and reported issues.
After the application is installed on users' computers, it attempts to connect to a website, requiring a username and password which would be probably provided by the terrorists. "Today this site is unreachable. Another window seems related to some bonus program: you can win 24 points by referring a newcomer," the McAfee employee reported.
As it was first reported, the software tool could be used to launch DDos attacks but since the website is down, no additional information is available at this time. Or maybe it's just a strategy to make us believe the terrorist technologies are not powerful enough for this attack.
Personally, I think it's only a fake warning but we must admit that such a technology is pretty smart since the Islamic terrorists can easily launch an attack by installing only a single piece of software on their computers. Sure, you need a very large network for a successful attack but we all know that the Jihad has militants in numerous regions of the world.