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Cross-Platform Frutas RAT Builder and Back Door

12

Feb

2013

We recently came across a sample of a back door remote access tool (RAT) written entirely in Java. The RAT is freely distributed on underground forums, free for any registered forum user to download. It is named Frutas, which means “fruit” in Spanish. Figure 1. Frutas logo The Frutas RAT allows attackers to create a connect-back client […]

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Linux/SSHDoor.A Backdoored SSH daemon that steals passwords

25

Jan

2013

In his summary of New Year predictions by security researchers here at ESET, Stephen Cobb pointed to expanded efforts by malware authors to target the Linux operating system. Looks like that might be right: A blog post published by Sucuri yesterday describes a backdoored version of the SSH daemon discovered on compromised servers. Interestingly, this […]

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Unexpected reboot: Necurs

08

Dec

2012

Necurs is a prevalent threat in the wild at the moment – variants of Necurs were reported on 83,427 unique machines during the month of November 2012. Necurs is mostly distributed by drive-by download. This means that you might be silently infected by Necurs when you visit websites that have been compromised by exploit kits such as Blackhole. So […]

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