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posted in News & media on Aug 11th, 2010
The first text message-based Trojan to infect smartphones running Google’s Android operating system has been detected in the wild. Trojan-SMS.AndroidOS.FakePlayer-A poses as a harmless media player application and has already infected a number of mobile devices, Russian security firm Kaspersky Lab warns. Prospective marks are prompted to install a “media player file” of just over [...]
posted in Deutsch, News & media on May 26th, 2010
posted in RAT sources, Tools & sources on Feb 15th, 2010
Name Trj.Casper Type RAT Author Unknown Written in C Description This sourcecode dates back to 2004. It is quite old and its functionality is rather limited. The intresting part in this source code is the injection section which represents the biggest part of it. It [...]
posted in News & media on Feb 8th, 2010
Chinese authorities have closed down a firm that allegedly trained hackers to develop spyware and launch cyberattacks. Police in the central Chinese province of Hubei province arrested three people when they closed down Black Hawk Safety Net, described by the official Xinhua news agency as running the country’s biggest hacker training website. Black Hawk Safety [...]
Die Internettelefonie über Skype galt eigentlich als sicher. Das dem nicht so ist, wurde im vergangenen Sommer bekannt. Der «SonntagsBlick» berichtete Ende August über Ruben Unteregger, der den Quelltext für einen entsprechenden Trojaner im Internet veröffentlicht hatte. Unteregger ist ein ehemaliger Mitarbeiter des Schwyzer Unternehmens Era IT Solutions . 2006 deckte die «SonntagsZeitung» auf, dass [...]
Ruben Unteregger aka Megapanzer demonstriert mit seiner Veröffentlichung, dass man auch die aktuelle Version der VoIP-Software Skype problemlos zum Abhören von Gesprächen missbrauchen kann. Der Programmierer arbeitete früher rund 7 Jahre für das Schweizer Unternehmen ERA IT Solutions und war dort für die Erstellung von Schadsoftware zuständig. Dem Unternehmen wird nachgesagt, dass sie auch im [...]
posted in Tools & sources on Dec 26th, 2009
Dear readers I used the time over christmas to work on the Skype trojan source code. The code was a little messy, it compiled but at some places it crashed. The old source was optimised for Skype 3 and about for a year now Skype 4 is spreading more and more. Therefore I decided to [...]
posted in Reading material, Stuff on Nov 27th, 2009
Nice article about botnets, click fraud and spamming. You can find the original article (written by Yury Namestnikov) on www.viruslist.com. The Economics of Botnets In the past ten years, botnets have evolved from small networks of a dozen PCs controlled from a single C&C (command and control center) into sophisticated distributed systems comprising millions of [...]
posted in News & media on Nov 18th, 2009
A British court has sentenced four men to prison after they admitted they used sophisticated trojan software to steal almost £600,000 from bank accounts and send it to Eastern Europe. London’s Southwark Crown Court on Friday imposed sentences of as much as 4 and a half years on the men. According to IDG News, they [...]
posted in News & media on Nov 4th, 2009
Crimeware distributors have begun using Facebook as a command and control channel for a Trojan that turns compromised Windows PCs into zombie drones. Zombie clients poll the Notes section of the mobile version of Facebook for instructions. Compromised clients might be instructed to download further code from a specified web site or told to wait [...]
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