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Dropbox Used by Trojan to Update Command and Control Settings

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Jun

2014

A variant of the PlugX RAT (remote access tool) has been discovered to use a Dropbox account to update the settings for the command and control server. Researchers at Trend Micro found that the new variant of the malware targets a government agency in Taiwan and that it contains some modifications compared to previous known […]

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Dropbox Abused in Targeted Attacks Using PlugX RAT With “Time Bomb”

27

Jun

2014

When analyzing a targeted attack against a government agency in Taiwan, security researchers from Trend Micro said they came across a variant of the PlugX remote access tool (RAT) that abuses the popular file hosting service Dropbox.

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Hackers found controlling malware and botnets from the cloud

27

Jun

2014

In what is considered to be a natural evolution of tactics used by cybercriminals to infiltrate corporate networks, security firm Trend Micro has new evidence that more botnets and malware are being not only hosted in the cloud, but controlled remotely from cloud servers.

Category Cloud security Network security Security Written by Topix 0 Comments

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