The foreign ministry characterised the incident as a “virus attack” but said computer systems were targeted with the intent of gathering specific information.The extent of the breach is unknown and officials did not say what information was targeted. They are still trying to track down the source of the attack. The hack was apparently designed [...]

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I remember someone told me propagating a trojan nowadays by email is ineffective and the stupidest suggestion I made here. Even if not very elegant or 1337 apparently it’s still quite effective as you can read in this news article. People still doubleclick on executable attachments as a dog will chase the tennisball when you [...]

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According to some news portals the SkypeTrojan was already found in the wild. It’s origin can not be determined and people start to speculate if and which government is responsible for this deployment. If you compare the characteristics Symantec describes on their page and the SkypeTrojan code similarities can not be denied. [PREDETERMINED FOLDER NAME]\[CALLER [...]

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As announced some weeks ago the Skype trojan sourcecode will be available for download. You find the source packages in the Tools & sources section if you are the impatient type. The code is simple and straightforward. You have know malware development is no rocket science and if you expect big magic you are at [...]

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Gulli.com invited me for an interview for their online news portal and asked some questions aboug the Skype trojan, trojans in general etc. Enjoy and of course leave comments. Superintendent trojan – A programmer speaks out For about seven years, Ruben Unteregger has worked as a software-engineer for the Swiss company ERA IT Solutions. His [...]

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Gulli.com invited me for an interview for their online news portal and asked some questions aboug the Skype trojan, trojans in general etc. The interview is in german but I’ll translate it the next days. Enjoy and of course leave comments. Bundestrojaner – ein Programmierer erzählt Ruben Unteregger hat rund sieben Jahre lang als Softwareentwickler [...]

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Months after the announcement, and weeks in production, the Megapanzer video is finally here, cut, processed and uploaded to youtube! The video shows in seven simple steps how to take over an ebanking session of a victim and which tools you need to accomplish this stunt. The weakest link in the chain is (obviously) not [...]

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As already announced last week the Minipanzer sourcecode is available for download today. Please consider the GPL under which all the source is published and also that all material is for information and educational purpose only. Whatever your plans are with this, by downloading the material it is out of any of my responsibilities. Minipanzer [...]

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Today, as already announced last week when I published the Minipanzer video, all relevant Minipanzer binaries will be available for download! The source code will be published in one week’s time. Please consider that all material is for information and educational purpose only. Whatever your plans are with this, by downloading the material it is [...]

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After a long time the Minipanzer version 0.1 is finally there and the source and binary files will be available for download the next two weeks. Yesterday I’ve finished the video I’ve promissed to produce. It took some time because I was not familiar with video processing and the required tools. A friend gave me [...]

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