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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)
A Trojan horse is a program that purports to perform some legitimate function, yet upon execution it compromises the user's security. [17] A simple example is the following malicious version of the Linux sudo command. An attacker would place this script in a publicly writable directory (e.g., /tmp).
Drawing by Soviet historian of antiquities Nikolay Kazansky which depicts a sample of the Trojan script. Inscription № 2444, may be read: [3] ku-pa a-ro-ma ku-pa a-ro-ma. Inscription № 2445 is illegible and seems to have partly deteriorated; several signs may be identified as fragments of Linear A or Linear B signs but not as whole signs.
A trojan known as Tinba (Tiny Banker Trojan) has been built with form grabbing and is able to steal online banking credentials and was first discovered in 2012. Another program called Weyland-Yutani BOT was the first software designed to attack the macOS platform and can work on Firefox .
Swizzor is a trojan horse. This Trojan program is a Windows PE EXE file, 62 KB in size. It has numerous aliases such as: Downloader.Swizzor ; Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Swizzor.cc (Kaspersky Lab) Trojan.Swizzor , Troj/Swizzor-CC , TROJ_SWIZZOR.CC (Trend Micro), Trojan.Downloader.Swizzor.CC , Suspect File ,
In computer security, a drive-by download is the unintended download of software, typically malicious software. The term "drive-by download" usually refers to a download which was authorized by a user without understanding what is being downloaded, such as in the case of a Trojan horse. In other cases, the term may simply refer to a download ...
A dropper [1] [2] is a Trojan horse that has been designed to install malware (such as viruses and backdoors) onto a computer. The malware within the dropper can be packaged to evade detection by antivirus software. Alternatively, the dropper may download malware to the target computer once activated.
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