Saturday, June 02, 2007

IRS Trojan attacks Executive Data

In the world of today, the overall security of the computers is one of the major concerns not only for individual computer owners but specially for the big corporations that extensively adopt to the technology developments that take place in the marketplace for improving the efficiency of the company and managing operations in more automated and efficient manner .

With the incorporation of lots of computer technology in businesses and companies, be malicious hackers have also been actively targeting global companies and big corporations with viruses and trojans so as to infect their network and create more problems for the companies to face altogether. The matter of fact is that most of the antivirus programs that are available in the market today are truly unable to detect and remove the trojans and the viruses that are hidden in the RTF files. Mcafee was the first company that had detected the RTF vulnerability that was being exploited by attackers and virus creators. There is a trojan which is known as Robofo, Talpalk, Maha, and Dumbnod and the trojan software tends to send all kinds of stolen passwords to the network address which is 203.121.79.49:54321.

the trojan virus comes in the file complaint.rtf in the form of an email attachment and it seems that the email has been sent from the government. With that , the user opens the email and their computer gets affected by this trojan.

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