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Cerberus is a trojan horse targeting Android mobile phone banking credentials. History. It was initially spotted in June 2019. [1]
A trojan known as Keydnap first appeared in 2016, which placed a backdoor on victims' computers. Adware is also a problem on the Mac, with software like Genieo, which was released in 2009, inserting ads into webpages and changing users' homepage and search engine. Malware has also been spread on Macs through Microsoft Word macros.
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. [1] Trojans are generally spread by some form of social engineering.
An abbreviation of Zeus-In-The-Mobile, it is a trojan that is suggested for installation on a mobile phone by a Zeus-infected computer, and redirects incoming SMSs by acting like a man-in-the-mobile. It was the first mobile malware designed to steal mTAN banking codes. [ 26 ]
The RSPlug Trojan horse, a form of DNSChanger, is malware targeting the Mac OS X operating system. The first incarnation of the trojan, OSX.RSPlug.A , was discovered on October 30, 2007 by Mac security researchers at Intego .
Malware (a portmanteau of malicious software) [1] is any software intentionally designed to cause disruption to a computer, server, client, or computer network, leak private information, gain unauthorized access to information or systems, deprive access to information, or which unknowingly interferes with the user's computer security and privacy.
OSX.FlashBack, [1] also known as the Flashback Trojan, Fakeflash, or Trojan BackDoor.Flashback, is a Trojan horse affecting personal computer systems running Mac OS X. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The first variant of Flashback was discovered by antivirus company Intego in September 2011.
Leap - Mac OS X Trojan horse; Shamoon a wiper virus with stolen digital certificates destroyed over 35,000 computers owned by Saudi Aramco. Storm Worm - A Windows trojan horse that forms the Storm botnet; Stuxnet First destructive ICS-targeting Trojan which destroyed part of Iran's nuclear program.