home bbs files messages ]

Just a sample of the Echomail archive

Cooperative anarchy at its finest, still active today. Darkrealms is the Zone 1 Hub.

   CYBER-DANGER      Internet security and threats      46 messages   

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]

   Message 17 of 46   
   August Abolins to All   
   Possible Governmental Backdoor found   
   14 Nov 11 12:03:08   
   
   Path: news.grc.com!.   
   From: Sabahattin Gucukoglu    
   Newsgroups: grc.spyware   
   Subject: Possible Governmental Backdoor found   
   Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 04:15:29 +0100   
   Message-ID:    
      
   http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00002249.html   
      
   Chaos Computer Club from Germany has tonight announced that they   
   have located a backdoor trojan used by the German Goverment.   
   The announcment was made public on ccc.de with a detailed 20-page   
   analysis of the functionality of the malware. Download the report in PDF (in   
   German) The malware in question is a Windows backdoor consisting of a DLL and   
   a kernel driver. The backdoor includes a keylogger that targets certain   
   applications.   
      
   These applications include Firefox, Skype, MSN Messenger, ICQ and   
   others. The backdoor also contains code intended to take screenshots and   
   record audio, including recording Skype calls.   
      
   --- Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (Windows/20100228)   
    * Origin: Fidonet Via Newsreader - http://www.easternstar.info (1:123/789)   

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]


(c) 1994,  bbs@darkrealms.ca