Re: Scary article in Wall Street Journal today
On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 12:25:04 -0700, Paul E Condon wrote:
> Today in Wall Street Journal (pg 3 in US edition), there is an article
> about hacker break-ins to computers via the internet. Mentioned as the
> method of break-in are spyware called ZeuS, and Firefox browser, but no
> mention of what OS are aflicted.
What scares me most is seeing a newspaper media like WSJ wrongly using
the term "hacking" for such activities... really stumped. I thought that
only happened on my village O:-)
> I assume most of the affected computers are running some version of
> Microsoft Windows, but is this also a threat to Linux, and, in
> particular, Debian with Iceweasel?
I don't think so. It seems targeted to be installed and operate under
windows systems¹.
> Where can I look to read a discussion
> in more detail than this issue merits on this list? e.g. How does ZeuS
> work? And what does it do?
Wikipedia² has a small article about ZeuS nature.
¹ http://www.fortiguard.com/analysis/zeusanalysis.html#6
² http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeus_(trojan_horse)
Greetings,
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Camaleón
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