Posts Tagged ‘bmp image files’

JPEGs Leveraged for Targeted Attacks

Nov

2013

Trend Micro has found that some cyber-attacks rely on maliciously crafted JPEG files to perform updates on themselves or to deploy new threats. The image files contain encrypted data that the company researchers managed to extract and thus analyze the content, which consists in configuration files and binaries. Tracked to websites located in the Asia-Pacific […]

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Image Theft via FTP Could Be First Stage of Attack

Nov

2012

We recently came across a Trojan that steals image files of .jpg, .jpeg extensions, and Windows memory dumps (.dmp) from victims’ machines and uploads them to an FTP address hardcoded in the malware.This Trojan silently opens a command line and copies those image files found on the C, D, and E drives to the C […]

Category General Written by Blog Central > McAfee Labs 0 Comments

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