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Titre: [ThreatPost]Report: Syrian Government Using Targeted Skype Attacks, Malware To Spy On Dissidents
Posté par: igor51 le mai 04, 2012, 03:04:59

Report: Syrian Government Using Targeted Skype Attacks, Malware To Spy On Dissidents

<p>In a post on the F-Secure Labs blog, Chief Research Officer Mikko Hypponen says the firm received a hard drive image from a "contact" within Syria who believed that his computer had been compromised. An F-Secure analysis of the drive's contents and Web history revealed evidence of a targeted attack that used a malicious Skype chat link to install a copy of Xtreme RAT, a remote access tool that's commercially available online.</p><p><a href="http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/report-syrian-government-using-targeted-skype-attacks-malware-spy-dissidents-050312" target="_blank">read more</a></p>
Source: Report: Syrian Government Using Targeted Skype Attacks, Malware To Spy On Dissidents (http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/report-syrian-government-using-targeted-skype-attacks-malware-spy-dissidents-050312)