Posts Tagged ‘back door trojan’

Microsoft Windows XP Support Also Ending in the Malware Community!?

Apr

2013

Recently, I discovered a back door Trojan horse program that does not work on Microsoft Windows XP. I would like to present some of the details of this threat, especially as the malware author encoded a special trick into the functionality of the Trojan. The trick appears to have been designed to allow the threat […]

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How Attackers Steal Private Keys from Digital Certificates

Feb

2013

Regular readers of the Symantec blog may sometimes read blogs that mention a fraudulent file that is signed with a valid digital certificate or that an attacker signed their malware with a stolen digital certificate.You may recall that the creators of Stuxnet, arguably the most notorious malware in history, signed it using the private keys […]

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Man Arrested in Relation to the “Remote Control Virus”

Feb

2013

Back in October 2012, we published a couple of blogs about Backdoor.Rabasheeta, a back door Trojan that was used to make numerous death threats from compromised computers, resulting in four wrongful arrests. The saga may have come to an end for the malware author who had been taunting the Japanese authorities for months. On February […]

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