Targeted Trojan-horse attacks hitting U.S., worldwide

Targeted Trojan-horse attacks hitting U.S., worldwide
Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2005-06-22

Cyberattacks aiming to steal proprietary information have targeted companies and government agencies across the globe, including the U.S., security experts said this week.

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Targeted Trojan-horse attacks hitting U.S., worldwide 2005-06-23
TrustNoone

This is yet another sign pointing in the direction that the need for host-based intrusion detection systems are needed for both big companies and home users. Symantec's products are promising, but also independent products like the free "All-Seeing Eye" utility (http://www.fortego.com/ase) have a gr...

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Targeted Trojan-horse attacks hitting U.S., worldwide 2005-06-23
Anonymous

Why do we say steal proprietary information.... When we mean industrial espionage. We have laws that can work against espionage that are tougher then just theft.

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Targeted Trojan-horse attacks hitting U.S., worldwide 2005-06-27
Tinseltowner

I am wondering since they 'steal' don't they run somewhere in the background??? They still need to be somewhere sometimes acting??? Or not? I am interested in some sourcecode though just to know how this acts and works coz I think these types take far more advanced code than a normal trojan....

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Targeted Trojan-horse attacks hitting U.S., worldwide 2005-06-29
Anonymous

Trojans spread through email and Internet browsing - while an email scanner at the gateway level and strict security settings on the users' workstations do a good job, IP based blocking rules for most of the emails coming from Asia and parts of Europe made my life easier as network administrator....

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Targeted Trojan-horse attacks hitting U.S., worldwide 2006-05-18
Anonymous

Why does almost every article I read have someone quoting something to the extent of "...but just because the attacks are ALL from China, don't be too sure it's someone in China"? It sounds like people are walking on eggshells to NOT accuse the Chinese of industrial espionage as one wise commenter p...

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Targeted Trojan-horse attacks hitting U.S., worldwide 2007-05-12
Maarten Van Horenbeeck

Recently, an organization I was working with got hit by a sequence of targeted trojans. I have put up a brief version of the methodology analysis online here. This may be of interest:

http://www.daemon.be/maarten/targetedattacks.html...

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