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The virus was notable due to the destructive nature of the attack and the cost of recovery. Shamoon can spread from an infected machine to other computers on the network. Once a system is infected, the virus continues to compile a list of files from specific locations on the system, upload them to the attacker, and erase them.
The Europol-supported CUING initiative monitors the use of steganography in malware. [ 7 ] The methods used by stegomalware have been used in a number of attacks: Duqu (to hide malicious payloads in JPEG images for stealthy data exfiltration), Zeus/Zbot (to mask command-and-control (C&C) traffic inside image files), Waterbug (to inject ...
Snake was malware developed by the Federal Security Service of Russia.It was one of the most used tools by FSB's Center 16 and formed a part of the Turla toolset. [1] It saw use in at least 50 countries, being employed to collect data from government networks, diplomatic communication and research facilities.
A malware honeypot is a decoy designed to intentionally attract malicious software. It does this by imitating a vulnerable system or network, such as a web server. The honeypot is intentionally set up with security flaws that look to invite these malware attacks.
A pastebin or text storage site [1] [2] [3] is a type of online content-hosting service where users can store plain text (e.g. source code snippets for code review via Internet Relay Chat (IRC)). The most famous pastebin is the eponymous pastebin.com .
Pastebin.com is a text storage site. It was created on September 3, 2002 by Paul Dixon, and reached 1 million active pastes (excluding spam and expired pastes) eight years later, in 2010. [3] It features syntax highlighting for a variety of programming and markup languages, as well as view counters for pastes and user profiles.
Bifrost is a backdoor trojan horse family of more than 10 variants which can infect Windows 95 through Windows 10 (although on modern Windows systems, after Windows XP, its functionality is limited).
They do so either by encrypting or obfuscating the malware payload. One common deployment is a file binder that weaves malware into normal files, such as office documents. Since this type of malware is usually polymorphic, it is also known as a polymorphic packer. The engine of the Virut botnet is an example of a polymorphic engine. [1]