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 Levi, McDonalds, Nike etc.

The full PDF is here http://www.tauceti.org/eacs.pdf

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