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Saturday, September 7, 2013

Linux - maybe the 'Hand of Thief ' bank Trojan, aimed at Linux OS's, isn't as bad as they first thought

Well, maybe the 'Hand of Thief ' bank Trojan, aimed at Linux OS's, isn't as bad as they first thought...

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Linux 'Hand of Thief ' bank Trojan is not viable malware, says RSA

o John E Dunn
05.09.2013 kl 12:55 | Techworld.com
The ‘Hand of Thief' (HoT) Linux banking Trojan that was offered for sale on the criminal underground this summer is a primitive "prototype" that poses little real threat to users of the OS, a new analysis by RSA has reported.
The 'Hand of Thief' (HoT) Linux banking Trojan that was offered for sale on the criminal underground this summer is a primitive "prototype" that poses little real threat to users of the OS, a new analysis by RSA has reported.
Having tested the programme, it now looks as if the individual offering it for sale on Russian crime forums at a premium price was doing an ambitious sales job on its imagined capabilities.
The firm's researchers fired up HoT's Windows bot builder programme, using it to create a working binary for test purposes. Immediately, they started noticing inefficiencies in its design such as the need to generate a new binary every time basic configuration changes were made.
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