Blog Posts Tagged with "multi-platform"
PlaceRaider: 3D Visual Malware from Military Research
October 01, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
It's known that military sector represents a privileged incubator for new technologies than in many cases are subsequently used in civil. We have already read about the existence of software to spy on victims that are able to record communications and movements but the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Crane, Indiana in collaboration with researchers at Indiana University created a new type of 'vi...
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The Rise of Multi-Platform Malware
July 12, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
Using a JAR, the malware is able to identify the OS and download the right files to infect the targeted machine. After identifying the type of operating system a unit is running, a Java class file will download the appropriate malware, with the purpose to open a backdoor to allow remote access to the machine...
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Multi-Platform Backdoor Malware in the Wild
July 11, 2012 Added by:Headlines
"The JAR file checks if the user's machine is running in Windows, Mac or Linux then downloads the appropriate files... the three different platforms behave the same way. They all connect to 186.87.69.249 to get additional code to execute. The ports are 8080, 8081, and 8082 for OSX, Linux, and Windows respectively..."
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