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The first Trojan in history to steal Linux and Mac OS X passwords

22

Aug

2012

Russian anti-virus company Doctor Web is reporting the emergence of the first cross-platform backdoor to run under Linux and Mac OS X. This malicious program is designed to steal passwords stored by a number of popular Internet applications. BackDoor.Wirenet.1 is the first such Trojan capable of running under any of these operating systems. It’s not […]

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July 2012 virus activity review: the summer lull and a new threat to Mac OS

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Aug

2012

July 2012 saw an increased number of system infections by blocker Trojans; at the same time, because one of the largest BackDoor.Blackenergy botnets was brought down, spam traffic declined significantly. At the end of the month, Doctor Web discovered a cross-platform Trojan, dubbed BackDoor.DaVinci.1, targeting both Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. It should be […]

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Economies of scale: A perspective on cross-platform vulnerabilities

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Jul

2012

A year ago, we published a blog post titled ‘Backdoor Olyx – is it malware on a mission for Mac?‘. It explored the intriguing questions that lay behind this backdoor’s discovery, delivery and targets. We provided our observations and analysis, and suggested that this threat was used in a targeted attack against unknown victims. However, […]

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