Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Uroburos rootkit - Apparently this Malware is 3 years old



It is  designed to capture network traffic and steal files. It's a rootkit made up of two files, a driver and an encrypted virtual file system. The rootkit is able to take control of an infected machine, execute arbitrary commands and hide system activities.

The malware communicates over a peer-to-peer network. Providing it can find one computer with internet access within a compromised network, it's capable of stealing data from other infected computers on the same network – even if they don't have access to the interwebs


Similarities in techniques and technology point to links between Uroburos and a malware-based attack against the US around six years ago.


The link below has more details:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/03/04/uroburos_spyware/

Here is the previous story where it was claimed to be from Russian government.

http://martin-news-bytes.blogspot.com/2014/03/20th-century-was-nuclear-threat-from.html

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