Tag: Trojan
SHOCK: Report Details China Hacks Targeting Google, Others, Many Others
Advanced Persistent Threats | APT Attacks, Zero Day Exploits
“If you’re a law firm and you’re doing business in places like China, it’s so probable you’re compromised and it’s very probable there’s not much you can do about it,” Mandia says.
Now a leading computer forensic firm is providing the closest look so far at the nature of the attacks, and attackers, that struck Google and others, thousands of others. The report never mentions Google by name, or any other companies, but focuses on information gathered from hundreds of forensic investigations the firm has conducted that are identical to what we know about the Google hack.
Cant Figure Out Why Your PC keeps getting re-infected?
Meet this New Trojan, Muster.e
Security researchers have spied malware that stashes a copy of itself in a Windows help file to ensure victim computers remain infected.
The trojan, dubbed Muster.e by anti-virus provider McAfee, infects a Windows file called imepaden.hlp so it stores the main components of the malware in encrypted form. In the event the installed malware is removed, the secret payload is decrypted into an executable file called upgraderUI.exe and run by a companion installation file that automatically runs as a Windows service.