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South Korean Manufacturing Industry Targeted With New Backdoor Program

posted by martyb on Saturday October 31 2015, @05:17PM   Printer-friendly
from the what's-in-your-system? dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

South Korean organizations are being targeted in attacks with a new stealthy backdoor program that gives attackers full access to infected computers.

The malware has been dubbed Duuzer and while it's not exclusively used against targets in South Korea, it does seem that the hacker group behind it have a preference for that country's manufacturing industry, according to security firm Symantec.

Duuzer was designed to work on both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows versions and opens a back door through which attackers can gather system information; create, list and kill processes; access, modify and delete files; execute commands and more.

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  • (Score: 2) by aristarchus on Sunday November 01 2015, @08:49AM

    by aristarchus (2645) on Sunday November 01 2015, @08:49AM (#257122) Journal

    So you've got a blinkered view of the world if you think people can't pwn Linux as easily as they pwn Windows. They do, it's just your religious viewpoint prevents you from seeing or accepting it.

    Well, yeah, but who are you, oh Anonymous Coward? Religious view point? May you be touched by his Noodly Appendage, and have all your cheese grated for you. But user level access? On a router or other appliance? I think you misunderstand what is going on. Yes, user level access is great for taking over that user's account, but when you have a system like mine, and you have to hack the user 1,243 times? Not going to happen. We are talking about system level compromises here, backdoors with root access "from the factory". Oh, now I see. This is why it is so hard to buy a system with linux pre-installed: because it is so difficult to install a backdoor, and all that bloatware that is only available for Windows.

    In conclusion, never said Linux could not be hacked, just that compared to Windows. . . . We'll leave it at that.

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