blog articles under the 'Trojans' category

The Dell SecureWorks Counter Threat Unit team has written a great question and answer threat analysis on the Duqu Trojan. This Trojan has received a great deal of attention because it is similar to the infamous Stuxnet worm of 2010.

On March 5, 2010, Energizer and US-CERT announced that some consumer Energizer DUO USB battery chargers had shipped with a malicious software trojan. The hardware device is used to charge Nickel Metal Hydride (NiMH) batteries from both a wall outlet and USB connection.

In this post I will go over the latest botnet making the headlines. The "Finjan botnet" appears to be large and strikes fear into many. As an average computer user, should you be afraid of the botnet, or should you be scared of being compromised by a Trojan? How bad can one piece of malware be?

On October 23, 2008, Microsoft released an out-of-cycle emergency patch for a flaw in the Windows RPC code. The reason for this unusual occurance was the discovery of a “zero-day” exploit being used in the wild by a worm (or trojan, depending on how you look at it).

If you saw the following browser window pop up on your desktop today for no apparent reason, you are:

For several years now, there has been a steady, increasing effort by computer criminals to utilize malware in order to steal data from victim computers. Often the criminals don’t actually write the malware, they simply download a trojan kit, configure it for their purposes and then spread it using various methods.

In late June, SecureWorks Senior Researcher Joe Stewart and I discovered new, previously undetected variants of the Prg Trojan. (see Prg Trojan). This week, I uncovered the largest, single cache of stolen data from the PrgTrojan.