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Torpig, also known as Anserin or Sinowal is a type of botnet spread through systems compromised by the Mebroot rootkit by a variety of trojan horses for the purpose of collecting sensitive personal and corporate data such as bank account and credit card information.
Once a system has been infected with the ZeroAccess rootkit it will start one of the two main botnet operations: bitcoin mining or click fraud.Machines involved in bitcoin mining generate bitcoins for their controller, the estimated worth of which was 2.7 million US dollars per year in September 2012. [9]
The Internet is an inherently insecure channel for information exchange, with high risk of intrusion or fraud, such as phishing, [3] online viruses, trojans, ransomware and worms. Many methods are used to combat these threats, including encryption and ground-up engineering. [4]
PC-cillin 2002 and 2003 were stand-alone virus scanners which also included a firewall component and improved on the software's scanning and virus detection engine. Newer versions of Trend Micro Internet Security offer additional features such as spyware protection, antispam and an integrated firewall along with an improved scanning and virus ...
In computing, a Trojan horse (or simply Trojan) is a malware that misleads users of its true intent by disguising itself as a normal program. The term is derived from the ancient Greek story of the deceptive Trojan Horse that led to the fall of the city of Troy.
The company argued that the most critical files about the spyware tool might never be disclosed, while Apple’s own disclosures could aid NSO and similar companies. Another reason cited was a US ban on doing business with NSO, and a perceived boost to Apple’s threat detection technologies in the three years since the claim was first filed. [33]
Pharming is a cyberattack intended to redirect a website's traffic to another, fake site by installing a malicious program on the victim's computer in order to gain access to it.
Stormy Weather: A Quantitative Assessment of the Storm Web Threat in 2007 (Trend Micro) In millions of Windows, the perfect Storm is gathering, from The Observer. April Fool's Day Storm Worm Attack Hits, from PC World. Storm and the future of social engineering from Help Net Security (HNS). Bodmer, Kilger, Carpenter, & Jones (2012).