Cybercriminals Shifting To Bugat

wiredmikey writes "Cybercriminals are changing up their weapons, trying to diversify their attack tools using a platform that is less well known and therefore harder to detect and block. With so much focus on the ZeuS Trojan, recent attacks utilized a variant of 'Bugat,' another Trojan horse that steals information from a compromised computer and sends it to a remote host. Bugat was first discovered in January of this year but, like ZeuS, has seen some different variants. In last week's attack, LinkedIn users received emails alerting them of a 'Contact Request,' and encouraging them to click through to a malicious URL where a java applet fetched and installed the Bugat executable."

Finally!

[digitaldc]

After years of inactivity and wondering exactly what is its purpose, I have now discovered a reason to having a profile on LinkedIn.
Meeting new people, discovering professional contacts and getting viruses!

I'd avoid clicking them on pages, too

[Jeremiah Cornelius]

Let's start with email and forums, yes.

But the question is open: What are these "hyperlinks" really for, anyway? The dubious benefits delivered at the other end of clicking is seldom worth the exhilaration. I say that we should just eliminate them, altogether!

I envision a large screen - you could make it large enough to occupy a central place in the household. This could be used to deliver appropriate, scheduled media and information: remote through a wireless, one-to-many transport or stored locally on different removable media.

I think there are significant opportunities to greatly simplify the user interface of such a device, and we will eliminate the risks associated in hyperlinking.

Re:This is embarassing

[e70838]

I was not able to download bugat from this link. Do you have another one ?

Re:I'd avoid clicking them on pages, too

[Jesus_666]

Your idea is intriguing but with the lack of accountability as to who is consuming what when, the content industry would never allow the distribution of movies and shows over your new network. Without multimedia capabilities, who would use it?

Re:Running Mac OS...

[Beerdood]

I'm running Linux, so I don't care.

Bwahahahah!

Dear Malware coders :

Please work on creating more linux based malware and viruses. There simply isn't enough Linux Malware [wikipedia.org] out there - I believe the parent post clearly shows that there are plenty of smug linux users out there that believe their computers are impenetrable fortresses.

You see, it's a win-win situation for you regardless of what happens. Either
a) Linux becomes the dominant operating system, jumping from 0.1% to 95% of the market share. In this scenario, your malware reaches a significantly higher number of unsuspecting users.
b) Linux becomes even more obscure and Windows based operating systems are still the dominant choice of operating system. In this scenario, your existing Windows malware will continue to prevail and infect more and more users switching over from Linux to Windows.

Please carefully consider my proposal. I'm sure you'll find that we can agree that there needs to be a lot more Linux based Malware out there, so get coding. Also, I would gladly send $60 for your "free anti-virus software" just imagining the look on the faces of pretentious linux users when they find their system is infected.

Sincerely,
Beerdood