New Malware Overwrites Software Updaters

itwbennett writes "Researchers at Bach Khoa Internetwork Security (BKIS), a Vietnamese security company, have found a new type of malware that 'masks itself as an updater for Adobe Systems' products and other software such as Java,' wrote BKIS analyst Nguyen Cong Cuong in a post on the company's blog. BKIS showed screenshots of a variant of the malware that imitates Adobe Reader version 9 and overwrites the AdobeUpdater.exe, which regularly checks in with Adobe to see if a new version of the software is available."

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believe it or not

[circletimessquare]

there's a difference between a pop up in a browser frame and a modal dialog box from an application

and, get this, you can actually see the difference

and, i hope i'm not getting too far ahead of you here, it matters in terms of what kind of attack vector you are dealing with

have i totally blown your mind yet? ;-P