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Trojan controlling botnet with Google Groups found

Juha-Matti Laurio [PersonRank 10]

Monday, September 14, 2009
2 years ago555 views

First Twitter, now newsgroups:
symantec.com/connect/blogs/goo ...

Juha-Matti Laurio [PersonRank 10]

2 years ago #

Summary here:

"....Symantec has observed an interesting variation on this concept in the wild. A back door Trojan that we are calling Trojan.Grups has been using the Google Groups newsgroups to distribute commands. Trojan distribution via newsgroups is relatively common, but this is the first instance of newsgroup C&C usage that Symantec has detected.
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