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Tsunami backdoor for Mac OS X discovered

26

Oct

2011

OSX/Tsunami-A, a new backdoor Trojan horse for Mac OS X, has been discovered. What makes Tsunami particularly interesting is that it appears to be a port of Troj/Kaiten, a Linux backdoor Trojan horse that once it has embedded itself on a computer system listens to an IRC channel for further instructions. Typically code like this […]

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Targeted malware attack shows how Fast Fingerprinting works

24

Oct

2011

Last week, I was working a shift in SophosLabs triaging customer submissions, and found myself updating detection for the Troj/DocDrop-S Trojan horse. Keen readers will remember that I have talked about the Troj/DocDrop-S malware before, in relation to the presentation that Stephen Edwards and I gave at the recent Virus Bulletin conference in Barcelona. The […]

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Malware attack poses as bloody photos of Gaddafi’s death

21

Oct

2011

The death of Libyan dictator Colonel Gaddafi has almost inevitably resulted in cybercriminals taking advantage of the news story, and the general public’s seeming interest in viewing ghoulish photos and videos of his last moments. Malicious hackers have spammed out an attack posing as pictures of Gaddafi’s death, tricking users into believing that they came […]

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