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[ NNSquad ] Claim of German government exploit attacking Firefox, Skype, more
Claim of German government exploit attacking Firefox, Skype, more http://j.mp/q2QMtE (F-Secure) "Chaos Computer Club from Germany has tonight announced that they have located a backdoor trojan used by the German Goverment. The backdoor includes a keylogger that targets certain applications. These applications include Firefox, Skype, MSN Messenger, ICQ and others. The backdoor also contains code intended to take screenshots and record audio, including recording Skype calls. In addition, the backdoor can be remotely updated. Servers that it connects to include 83.236.140.90 and 207.158.22.134." - - - Important to note that there is *no* confirmation regarding the source of this exploit. --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein (lauren@vortex.com): http://www.vortex.com/lauren Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org Founder: - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org - Global Coalition for Transparent Internet Performance: http://www.gctip.org - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com Google+: http://vortex.com/g+lauren Twitter: https://twitter.com/laurenweinstein Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com