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In computing, a Trojan horse (or simply Trojan) is a malware that misleads users of its true intent by disguising itself as a normal program. The term is derived from the ancient Greek story of the deceptive Trojan Horse that led to the fall of the city of Troy. [1] Trojans are generally spread by some form of social engineering.
Blackshades is a malicious trojan horse used by hackers to control infected computers remotely. The malware targets computers using operating systems based on Microsoft Windows . [ 2 ] According to US officials, over 500,000 computer systems have been infected worldwide with the software.
Some anti-virus programs (example AVG – 17th Feb 2010) seem to miss the file entirely. The server builder component has the following capabilities: Create the server component; Change the server component's port number and/or IP address; Change the server component's executable name; Change the name of the Windows registry startup entry
Microsoft Windows Alureon (also known as TDSS or TDL-4 ) is a trojan and rootkit created to steal data by intercepting a system's network traffic and searching for banking usernames and passwords, credit card data, PayPal information, social security numbers, and other sensitive user data. [ 1 ]
[4] [5] The malware targets specific users of Microsoft Windows-based computers and has been linked to the US intelligence-gathering agency NSA and its British counterpart, the GCHQ. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] The Intercept provided samples of Regin for download, including malware discovered at a Belgian telecommunications provider, Belgacom . [ 5 ]
SpyEye is a malware program that attacks users running Google Chrome, Safari, Opera, Firefox and Internet Explorer on Microsoft Windows operating systems. [1] This malware uses keystroke logging and form grabbing to steal user credentials for malicious use.
The Storm Worm (dubbed so by the Finnish company F-Secure) is a phishing backdoor [1] [2] Trojan horse that affects computers using Microsoft operating systems, [3] [4] [5] discovered on January 17, 2007. [3] The worm is also known as: Small.dam or Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Small.dam ; CME-711 ; W32/Nuwar@MM and Downloader-BAI (specific variant)
For the Greek legend about a hollow wooden horse that inspired the computing term, see Trojan horse. See also ... Windows trojans (63 P)