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ESET's WeLiveSecurity blog has released details of Win32/Potao malware attack campaigns on high-value targets in Ukraine, Russia, Georgia and Belarus:
We presented our initial findings based on research into the Win32/Potao malware family in June, in our CCCC 2015 presentation in Copenhagen. Today, we are releasing the full whitepaper on the Potao malware with additional findings, the cyber-espionage campaigns where it was employed, and its connection to a backdoor in the form of a modified version of the TrueCrypt encryption software.
Like BlackEnergy, the malware used by the so-called Sandworm APT group (also known as Quedagh), Potao is an example of targeted espionage malware directed mostly at targets in Ukraine and a number of other post-Soviet countries, including Russia, Georgia and Belarus.
[...] An (A)PT malware family that has gone relatively unnoticed for five years and that has also been used to spy on Ukrainian governmental and military targets is certainly interesting in and of itself. However, perhaps the most attention-grabbing discovery related to this case was when we observed a connection to the popular open-source encryption software, TrueCrypt. We found out that the website truecryptrussia.ru has been serving modified versions of the encryption software that included a backdoor to selected targets. Clean versions of the application are served to normal visitors to the website, i.e. people who aren't of interest to the attackers. ESET detects the trojanized TrueCrypt as Win32/FakeTC. TrueCrypt Russia's domain was also used as a C&C server for the malware. The connection to Win32/Potao, which is a different malware family from Win32/FakeTC, is that FakeTC has been used to deliver Potao to victims' systems in a number of cases. FakeTC is not, however, merely an infection vector for Potao (and possibly other malware) but a fully functional and dangerous backdoor designed to exfiltrate files from the espionage victims' encrypted drives.
From The Register.
(Score: 3, Touché) by takyon on Friday July 31 2015, @05:58PM
Spudnik jokes not admitted.
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(Score: 2) by broggyr on Friday July 31 2015, @06:25PM
PO-TA-TOES!
Taking things out of context since 1972.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Runaway1956 on Friday July 31 2015, @06:41PM
Are these ones alright?
1
A Gentleman comes to the shop and asked,
Give me a bottle of vodka and a bottle of Coca-cola.
After Half an hour he comes again and asked again,
Give me a bottle of vodka and a bottle of Coca-cola.
After one hour he comes again and asked to the shopkeeper
Give me a bottle of vodka and a bottle of... of Sprite. It seems Coca-cola makes me sick! :)
2
A patient went to a doctor. Patient was suffering from insomnia, nervous breakdown and Depression. After some checking the doctor said,
Doctor: This medicine is for insomnia, this one is for nervous break-down, and also take this one for depression.
Patient: Thank you very much, doctor, but do you have any other medicine besides vodka?
3
Tell us, what forces you to drink vodka every day?
Nothing. I'm a volunteer.
4
The Traffic police stops a car.
Policeman asked the man, Have you drunk vodka today?
Driver: No.
Policeman: Breathe into the tube... Well, no alcohol is detected... Maybe the tube is broken… (breathes into the tube himself) No, it's working!
5
Two Russian friends Went in a bar and ordered beer vodka.
One of them adds: - Make sure the mug glass is clean!
After a minute the waiter brings two beer mugs vodka glasses and asks: - Which of you ordered beer vodka in a clean mug glass?
Courtesy: http://www.flowingevents.com/2012/01/5-best-russian-jokes-about-vodka.html [flowingevents.com]
(Score: 2) by goodie on Friday July 31 2015, @06:53PM
Damn. I though there was some super fast worm eating potatoes and that the world supply of chips was threatened.
(Score: 1) by Pino P on Friday July 31 2015, @08:08PM
Especially because potato is from August 2000 [debian.org]. If you haven't had a woody by then, you're way behind.