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DEFINITION: A talking Trojan is a Trojan horse that mocks the user of an infected PC with a repeating audio message while it deletes the entire contents of a hard drive. Security vendor Panda Software SA detected the first talking Trojan, BotVoice.A, in the summer of 2007.PandaSoft warns that infection can occur through multiple vectors, including:through physical storage devices like USB flash drives, smartphones,
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Trojan Horses White Papers
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Making Sense of Man-in-the-Browser: Strategies for Mitigating a Menacing Threat
sponsored by RSA, The Security Division of EMC
WHITE PAPER:
The increasing implementation of strong two-factor authentication has challenged fraudsters to develop new methods to target online users. One of the latest tactics fraudsters are employing is the use of Trojans to launch man-in-the-browser attacks. Read on to learn more about this type of attack and how to defend against it.
Posted: 12 Nov 2009 | Published: 12 Nov 2009
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Ten Ways Hackers Breach Security
sponsored by Global Knowledge
WHITE PAPER:
Hacking, cracking, and cyber crimes can wreak havoc on an organization. This white paper discusses ten common methods hackers use to breach your existing security, and what you can do to protect yourself.
Posted: 09 Feb 2007 | Published: 09 Feb 2007
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TROJAN HORSES DEFINITION (continued): … iPods or CD-ROMsdirectly through a download initiated by other malware or from malicious Web pages over P2P networks.Once the talking Trojan has been installed, the application uses the Windows text reader to play the following text: "You have been infected. I repeat you have been infected and your system files has [sic] been deleted. Sorry. Have a nice day and bye bye."The Trojan prevents certain file types from running. Disabled file extentions include BAT, COM, EXE and MP3. BotVoice.A also disables the Windows registry editor and the Task Manager which can make it difficult for the … Trojan Horses definition sponsored by SearchSecurity.com, powered by WhatIs.com an online computer dictionary
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