Targeted Trojan attacks on the rise

Targeted Trojan attacks on the rise
Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2006-10-13

MONTRÉAL - On December 1, 2005, two e-mail messages were sent from a computer in Western Australia to members of two different human rights organizations. Each e-mail message carried a Microsoft Word document with a previously unknown exploit that would take control of the targeted person's computer and open up a beachhead into the group's network.

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Targeted Trojan attacks on the rise 2006-10-13
Anonymous

This rather reminds me of a presentation given at a UK conference in Feb 2004. It covered the W32.Bugbear.B@mm worm, which attempted to specifically target a list of 1300 banks, presumably for financial profit. The PDF goes on to suggest that hackers will target the global 'poster children' like Lev...

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Targeted Trojan attacks on the rise 2006-10-16
DeadOnArrival

I attended a presentation from the guys at Norman antivirus, and they had a sandbox analyzing the behaviour of the files, and had behavioural patterns to match viruses. These were typically "decrypts itself, contact some ftp and downloads some file".

This could work better than signature driven ant...

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Who's to blame? 2006-10-16
assurbanipal

All this mess is in large part caused by the clueless garbage programs dumped daily by Micro$oft in their O.S.

Old Bill should be made liable and PAY for all these incidents!

In the meantime, get rid of Word and stop the bug spree!...

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Targeted Trojan attacks on the rise 2006-10-19
Juha-Matti Laurio

One trend related to these targeted attacks is that attackers start exploiting Office 0-day vulnerabilities on Friday evening - when it's very difficult to reach IT support.

They really know how to get the best "result"....

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Targeted Trojan attacks on the rise 2006-10-28
Emil (1 replies)

So if these companies wasn't using Microsoft's obviously flawed formats they wouldn't be in this much of a hassle.

How long are companies going to accept the sh_t Microsoft continues to shove down their throats?...

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Re: Targeted Trojan attacks on the rise 2006-11-30
Anonymous

I'm not a fan of Microsoft, and the security of their products can indeed be appalling... however, a big part of why these products are having such vulnerabilities exposed is sheer surface area. It doesn't pay to develop exploits in products that nobody knows or cares about...

If everyone in the wo...

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