Showing posts with label Virus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Virus. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Trojan Spied VoIP

It is uncomfortable if someone that we don’t want recorded or heard our conversation with our partner or client. Trojan Peskyspy able to record conversation and victim targeting is Skype users. By hooky several Windows API, this Trojan send conversation in mp3 file format in specific remote channel to a wiretap. Someone PC can infect by Trojan via used channels, including an exe file on e-mail when user clicked to visit infected website. For good, you better upgrade your operating system, browser, or security software, so able to detect dangerous attachment presence, and give a warning message to you about potential website contained dangerous application.

Monday, August 10, 2009

Sexy View Targeting Mobile Equipment

Mobile equipment owner must be more carefully. A first mobile malware, named Sexy View or Sexy Space, just founded by security researchers. Sexy View written specially fot attack handphone with Symbian OS. Sezy View fist time detectioned six months ago in China. But now infection payload showed many characteristic grom binet PC software and more sophisticated compare with hakded attacker was happend before. Sexy View/Space was able ti upload themself and upgraded SMS template without user helper. How sexy View attacked? Basically Sexty View uses basic attack vectors was used by PC base malware. Program (known as SymbOS.Exy.C by Symantec) spread via short massage services (SMS) to attend the readers upload a application thatlook safety. The bait was a setence “A very sexy girl, Try it now!” . In that massage was a web address contained trojan. If you click that link, Sexy View automatically installed as valid apllication, complete with validation certificate from Symbian. But this new application will gathering all your detail and contact list. From your contact list will be use to send cheating massage to another. No only that, this trojan also take your serial number and customer number from handphone, and send via internet to remote command and control server.