I asked. You answered.

Always one to enjoy the fun of interactive asskicking, I threw it open to the floor - should this group of punks be subjected to a Paperghost-tastic facebusting on a grand and unrelenting scale?

Our survey said:

...and so it came to pass, that this wonderful bunch of rascals were subjected to 14+ solid hours of non-stop beatdowns.

In fact, I'm just finishing off mopping up the remains.

When I'm done, expect the full lowdown on exactly how much of a mangling these kids received.....

Want to see 13 year old kids going Phishing?

Sure you do.

Remember this nonsense? Well, I was wandering around some of their leet hax forums earlier and, wow, can you say 12 and 13 year old kids passing around fully fleshed out Phishing kits?

I've watched.

I've waited.

.....and now, I've seen enough. The above are the kinds of things you can expect to see lurking in their wonderful collection of Phish pages. In fact, here's one that's already gone live:

.....and so, my good friends, I turn to you with a poll. A poll that will either let a group of young whippersnappers off the hook, or set the scene for an evening of sheer terror.

You decide.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Last week I was putting together a writeup about Habbo Hotel scams. Well while looking into it, I kept seeing this program being named over and over again - usually in the form of desperate pleas as to its location.


Well, a bit of digging round later and, finally, I had a copy to play with - thanks to some dude on a forum who claimed "I have made it with Helgi B":

....230 downloads since he stuck that there. Keep this forum guy in mind, because we'll be back for him later. For now, let's fire this thing up...

....well what do you know, it doesn't actually do anything. Of course, if you watch his video the tool doesn't work for him, either - he claims some (unintelligible) excuse, then says he can get you your furniture if you mail him your username and password for Habbo Hotel.

/ eyes roll

Not a lot more we can do with this guy. In fact, he might not even have had anything to do with its creation, as we can see him asking......


.....if anyone has the same program available to download only a month or so earlier. There's Boobtastic, then there's this guy.

But wait.....he did mention someone called "Helgi B". Could we have a lead here? Let's go take a look at that URL mentioned on the interface.

Nuts! Game over, right?

Nah. A quick reload of the page, a quick slap of the "Stop" button on the browser and we avoid the forwarding and see this page instead:

...looks a bit more promising, right? (It basically says "Here you'll find all the info" or something along those lines). Let's check the code:

...."DJ Helgib"? Ah. I guess that'll be the very same "Helgi B" mentioned earlier. Let's go see. Of course, the Tripod page is gone, but that doesn't mean our old pal Google won't come in handy:

Oh dear, seems like Habbo didn't like him much. What else is out there, I wonder?

...it's like YoGangsta50 all over again, isn't it? From the blurb:

"I'm a Computer nerd, Programmer, Musician, And a famous Hacker xD"

Helgi, you have no idea how true those words are going to be. Wouldn't it be crazy if he'd just, you know, set up another profile on Habbo Hotel? Uh....

Well look at that, not only does this guy rock out to Techno (just like on Youtube) but he also writes his Nickname in the exact same way, too - xHelgiBx. THAT AIN'T NO KWINKYDINK!

Shall we check out one of his videos? Yeah, course we will.

This is a video pimping his "Anti Detector" program (gotta luv dem spellingz), which supposedly makes Anti Virus programs weep as your infection file breezes right past thanks to his program. I'd test it, but you have to pay money to obtain it via the link in the video description.

That's right, our guy is selling all sorts of dubious garbage. Check it out:






..that last one is awesome. "Simply hand over 40 dollars in return for absolutely no program whatsoever, and I really will send you 875 Habbo coins. Honest". Has throwing your money away ever been so easy?

Anyway, this guy has left so much information lying around it's almost scary - he clearly just doesn't care who knows about what he does online. In fact...he has so much information on his personal site you can pretty much guess what colour his underpants are.

According to his site, he was born in 1994 which (of course) makes him Thirteen.

Sigh. These kids are openly and wantonly peddling their leet hacking tools across all manner of websites - worse, they don't even bother to do it anonymously anymore. It almost makes YoGangsta look like Moriarty.

Almost.

When did we become so jaded that we didn't just tolerate anonymous punks hacking us, but gave a green light to thirteen year olds screwing us over and doing it in full view? The guy even runs a forum stuffed with dubious garbage that currently has over 1000 registered members.

I mean, don't get me wrong. I'm sure at least some of these "creations" of his are just stolen from other places and sold as his own, or just never worked in the first place.


I'm sure a lot of what he says is just bluster and showing off.


I'm even more sure that a lot of it revolves around the apparent hero worship he has heaped upon him by others.

I'm certain he's pretty talented, too.


But eventually.....it doesn't just become crossing the line....


....it becomes stomping across it with an industrial jackhammer.


Forget Storm Worms, FastFlux, RBN and all the other things we like to wheel out and scare ourselves with - the endless, throbbing mass of (mostly) faceless, nameless kids like this guy are the real worry. Because if we don't do something about them, in five years time (or maybe less) they'll be the new architects of the next wave of Storms and RBNs and shady Adware vendors.

And that stuff will be a lot worse than anything we can currently imagine.

I've seen the above played out so many times before, it's scary - and I'd like to think Helgi won't be staring at the inside of a cell in a few years time (or worse, staring at a gold encrusted 42 inch LCD TV while drinking Krunk Juice out of his pimp goblet made from the skull of Joseph Merrick via all his dubious moneymaking activities).

Hell, part of me wants to be somewhat sympathetic (though I'm not entirely certain why).

However.

The other part of me makes the very good point that, for all I know, my friend's life was possibly destroyed by some young kid, just like Helgi, messing around with hacking and sharing mega leet infection files, without a thought that their online actions might seriously mess someone up offline.

None of these kids appreciate - or indeed care - about the path they're wandering down. The question is - when will we?