Comments on: New Trojan Targets World Cup Fans – Troj/Haxdoor-IN

By: Predicting Malware - Events Trigger Malware/Phishing Spikes »

Predicting Malware - Events Trigger Malware/Phishing Spikes » — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 04:52:52 +0000

[...] And as it seems, they will use anything, we’ve already seen a trojan targetting world cup fans. For example, consider what we witnessed last year following the Katrina and Rita hurricanes that struck the southern coast of the USA. Within 24 hours of landfall, the Internet Storm Center observed a dramatic increase in fraudulent web sites aimed at good-hearted people wanting to donate to charities or relief efforts. We can predict with fairly high certainty that the same thing is going to happen again this year. We are monitoring DNS registrations and have seen several new names appear in the last few weeks with the strings “alberto”, “beryl”, “donation”, or “hurricane” in them. (Alberto and Beryl are the first two names on the list for 2006.) Are they all legitimate? Well, let’s see what happens as soon as the first storm forms and makes landfall. [...]

By: What Next? The Poker Rootkit of Course! »

What Next? The Poker Rootkit of Course! » — Sun, 21 May 2006 08:05:17 +0000

[...] Ok so the list gets even BIGGER, after the WoW Trojan, Trojan for World Cup Fans, Ransomeware and the buy a spyware kit story… [...]

By: mozzy

mozzy — Mon, 08 May 2006 07:51:22 +0000

“They may have firewalls, antivirus and anti-spyware software up the chute, but if you can make them run an executable their PC is yours.”

In general I would agree…if I wouldn’t have had the sweetest security software I have ever seen installed. Zone Alarm 6.1

Until now I was extremely surprised, this little lovely program puts me in control. No network activity without my permission. Until now it cought any in/out bound activity that I have not reviewed before.

However I totally agree with you and Pedro: PEBKAC

If this wouldn’t be true, phishing shouldn’t work at all

By: Darknet

Darknet — Mon, 08 May 2006 04:14:47 +0000

Pedro: Unfortunately what we see as common sense, doesn’t seem to be very common! That is indeed something I always tell people…If it’s too good to be true…IT ISN’T TRUE! They still don’t seem to get it though, human greed is overwhelming.

By: Spyget

Spyget — Sun, 07 May 2006 22:22:49 +0000

New Trojan Targets World Cup Fans – Troj/Haxdoor-IN…

[Source: Darknet - The Darkside Hacking, Cracking and Computer Security] quoted: A Trojan horse that poses as a World Cup wallchart has begun circulating on the net. The Haxdoor-IN Trojan horse is been spamvertised in messages, written in German, that …

By: Pedro Pinheiro

Pedro Pinheiro — Sun, 07 May 2006 20:56:41 +0000

One of the many simple rules of not having your wetware hacked is believing that “There’s no such thing as free lunch”. It only covers a small part of the possible exploits, but an important one.