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New Remote Access Trojan Used In Cyberespionage Operations (csoonline.com)
itwbennett writes: Researchers from Arbor Networks have discovered a new remote access Trojan, dubbed Trochilus, whose detection rate was very low among antivirus products. The malware was discovered while the researchers were investigating attacks in Myanmar that were launched from compromised government websites. While the Myanmar attacks provided initial insights into the group's operations, additional research revealed that the hackers' activities extend beyond that country.
they found it
It's ultra secure, free of malware and on top of that - it totally doesn't have a government backdoor because Apple said it didn't. I use it for all my secret stuff and am safe and happy!
Perhaps we should just retire the word "Hacker" in this context and replace it with a more accurate term like "Spy". It's pretty obvious that this is espionage.
Its a new Trojan so? How did it get on the machine? Did they use a zero day exploit? That would be news.
Iirc a Trojan just installs something else when run something else had to put it on the system. Typically a drive by exploit from an ad network.
I could make a autoit script that would download and install Microsoft office while claiming to install libreoffice. You could call that a Trojan too right?
Minimum threshold fixed. Thanks!
Wow, I know that robotic technology and haptic feedback was advancing quickly, but a remote access Trojan? Is there a public beta?
A new bit of Poettering shitcode added in systemd
Trojan launched from compromised websites and is only exploitable on Microsoft Windows.
Can we have what OS and what versions are vulnerable to this? It seem that lately that information is NEVER in the summary.