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Tag Archives: trojan
Bavarian Government Gets Up Close and Personal
The German state of Bavaria has approved laws that “allow the police to plant spyware”:http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/07/bavaria_police_spyware_plan/ on the computers of suspected terrorists. While German federal laws restrict the government to infecting computers with email, Bavarian laws allow police to enter a … Continue reading
Trojan Horses Nip at Apple Vulnerabilities
Software company Intego found this “Mac Trojan”:http://www.intego.com/news/ism0803.asp masquerading as a poker game. The Trojan actually transmits the user’s name, password, and IP address to an external server which it acquires through clever social engineering: bq. “A corrupt preference file has … Continue reading
Crimeware Kit Vulnerable to Hacking
Dancho Danchev wrote about a vulnerability “found in Zeus”:http://ddanchev.blogspot.com/2008/06/zeus-crimeware-kit-vulnerable-to.html, a crimeware kit circulating widely. Danchev explains: bq. The vulnerability allows the injection of logins and passwords within any misconfigured web interface, due to the way in which Zeus is processing … Continue reading
Tagged botnet, stopbadware, trojan, vulnerability
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Drive-By-Download Follows on Heels of Fake Media Download
Over the last several weeks, users downloaded more than they were bargaining for from several P2P networks. “TechNewsWorld”:http://www.technewsworld.com/story/Trojan-Infected-MP3s-Have-PC-Users-Singing-the-Blues-62936.html?welcome=1210700213 reported on “McAfee’s Avert Labs”:http://www.mcAfee.com that more than 500,000 computers have been infected. Users download a faux-mp3 file from a legitimate music … Continue reading
Rock Phish Adds a Trojan to Arsenal
Earlier this week, “RSA”:http://www.rsa.com/ issued a warning that Rock Phish has updated their “attack methods”:http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=151558&WT.svl=wire_2. Dark Reading “writes”:http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=151558&WT.svl=wire_2 “Rock Phish attacks are estimated to account for more than 50% of phishing attacks world-wide and to be responsible for the theft … Continue reading
Tagged phishing, security, stopbadware, trojan
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