{"id":10304,"date":"2014-02-05T17:35:19","date_gmt":"2014-02-05T16:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.corelan.be\/?p=10304"},"modified":"2014-02-05T17:35:19","modified_gmt":"2014-02-05T16:35:19","slug":"corelan-team-reply-to-false-allegation-made-by-kaspersky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.corelan.be\/index.php\/2014\/02\/05\/corelan-team-reply-to-false-allegation-made-by-kaspersky\/","title":{"rendered":"Corelan Team reply to false allegation made by Kaspersky"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi,<\/p>\n

A few moments ago, I was informed about an article on www.securelist.com and the fact that Corelan Team was mentioned in that post.  Apparently a researcher at Kaspersky Labs found a piece of text ("You have been owned by CorelanX") inside a malware sample and concluded that, due to the mere presence of that string, "It is not impossible that these messages are connected with the Corelan<\/a> team."<\/p>\n

First of all, to make things perfectly clear: Corelan Team, or Corelan GCV, has nothing<\/strong> to do with the 0day or the malware or the people who wrote it. <\/p>\n

We strongly condemn any illegal\/criminal acts and always have.  This is absolutely clear and is part of our core values, as explained here: https:\/\/www.corelan.be\/index.php\/about-us\/about-corelan-team\/<\/a>.  Our reputation is our most valuable asset and "suggestions"\/"allegations" such as the one made by Mr. Vyacheslav Zakorzhevsky would most certainly damage that reputation. <\/p>\n

The text "You have been owned by CorelanX" is just a string. The malware writers could have put anything they wanted in the malware, or made references to anyone.  Perhaps they even copy\/pasted some public payload from a public exploit on exploit-db, or took it from one of our tutorials<\/a>. Who knows.  <\/p>\n

In any case, Corelan Team is not related with or connected to the malware authors, the malware or the 0day.  It is a ridiculous and unfounded allegation.<\/p>\n

I can only hope the article will be updated asap and the potentially damaging statement will be removed.<\/p>\n

thanks and hugs<\/p>\n

Peter Van Eeckhoutte<\/p>\n

Founder of Corelan Team.<\/p>\n

PS : Mr. Zakorzhevsky : It would have been nice if you had contacted me before posting the article. <\/p>\n

\n

Update<\/strong>: Mr. Zakorzhevsky reached out on Twitter, confirmed the string doesn't mean anything and reported that the line was removed from the article.<\/p>\n

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