Russian anti-virus company Doctor Web is warning users about the malignant program BackDoor.Saker.1, which is capable of bypassing the User Account Control (UAC). The program’s main function is to execute directives from criminals and, most importantly, to intercept user keystrokes (keylogging). In a compromised system, the Trojan launches the file temp.exe to bypass the UAC. […]
The growing number of incidents involving compromised Linux web servers led Russian anti-virus company Doctor Web to conduct its own investigation into matter. Its analysts found that a Trojan horse, dubbed Linux.Sshdkit by Dr.Web, was sometimes being employed to steal passwords on servers running Linux. The malware is a library file available for 32- and […]
Russian anti-virus company Doctor Web is warning users that a new backdoor has been found in large numbers in the wild. Dubbed BackDoor.Butirat.245, the program features a new routine to generate names of control servers to connect to. The most probable rationale behind this feature is to keep the malware operational as long as possible […]
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