TESO (Austrian hacker group)
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TESO was a hacker group, which originated in Austria. It was active from 1998 to 2004, and during its peak around 2000, it was responsible for a significant share of the exploits on the bugtraq mailing list.
In 2000, some of their members took over phrack magazine and released the first ever hardcover (#57) at HAL2001.
History
In 1998, Teso was founded, and quickly grew to 6 people, which first met in 1999 at the CCC Camp near Berlin.
By 2000, the group was at its peak, and started speaking on various conferences, wrote articles for Phrack and released security tools and exploits at a very high pace. Some of its exploits only became known after leaking to the community. This included exploits for wu-ftp, apache, and openssh.
2000 First remote vulnerability OpenBSD 2.x - Pending ARP Request Remote Denial of Service[1] in OpenBSD followed by a series of remote exploits against OpenBSD (some co-authored with ADM). Forced OpenBSD to remove the claim from the OpenBSD webpage "7 years without vulnerability"Script error: No such module "Unsubst"..
In September 2001 released comprehensive Format String Research Paper[2] by scut describing uncontrolled format string vulnerabilities.
In 2003, the group informally disbanded, and in 2004 the website went down.
Achievements
- In 2000, developed hellkit, the first shellcode generator.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
- In 2000, wrote TesoGCC, the first format string vulnerability scanner, and the first comprehensive guide on format string exploitation.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
- BurnEye team member is widely believed to be one of the first proper ELF executable crypters.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
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Members and name
The name originally was an acronym of the nicknames of the original founders (typo, edi, stanly, Template:Proper name), 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:
- acpizer[3]
- caddis[4]
- edi[5]
- halvar[6]
- hendy[7]
- lorian[8]
- Template:Proper name[5]
- palmers[9]
- randomizer[10]
- scut,[11] published in September 2001[12]
- smiler[8]
- skyper[13]
- stealth/S.Krahmer[14]
- stanly[5]
- typo[15] aka Paul Bohm
- xdr/mdr[13]
- zip[8]
See also
- Goatse Security
- w00w00 - A like-minded hacking group. Some research and releases were published together with w00w00 members.
References
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