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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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Time to check your DNS settings?

14

Jan

2012

On Wednesday, the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) published a press release advising users to recheck DNS server settings on their computers. This recommendation is related to the successful botnet takedown – dubbed ‘Operation Ghost Click’ – led by the FBI during November 2011. The bad guys behind this botnet had infested approximately […]

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Gaddafi search poisoning

21

Oct

2011

Here's an example of search poisoning somewhat similar to that predicted by Stephen Cobb using the death of Gaddafi as a hook, noted by our colleague Raphael Labaca Castro, of ESET Latin America. The original blog is in Spanish. Raphael reports an email that comes with the following title (in Portuguese, suggesting that Brazilian Internet users […]

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