Hacker uses malware built-in chat to toy with researchers

Fun story!  (kinda old, sorry about that)

Malware researchers investigating a Trojan linked in a gaming forum as a how-to video for Diablo III got a surprise when the hacker started chatting with them—through a feature in the malware. Franklin Zhao & Jason Zhou of antivirus company AVG were looking for keylogging code in the malware with a debugger after downloading it to a virtual machine when a chat box popped up. The hacker asked, in Chinese, “What are you doing? Why are you researching my Trojan?”

Gotta love when a hacker has a sense of humor, (so to speak) I think in this case the hacker was just looking to be an elitist.

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