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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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