Opachki: State of the art malware continues to evolve

When the Conficker worm emerged on the scene, an entirely new type of sophistication in malware coding revealed a professional, knowledgeable understanding of the inner workings of the Windows Operating system. With Opachki, this sophistication continues in other areas, such as web page coding:

Opachki, from (and to) Russia with love
http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=7519

Opachki Link Hijacker Trojan Analysis
http://www.secureworks.com/research/threats/opachki/

Most people who frequent security forums might conclude that they are immune from the browser exploit, or even vulnerabilities in other software. But malware authors have no concern about this small minority of computer users world wide, as indicated by statistics in many research articles showing millions of people infected via the most common of attack vectors, and, of course, the various social engineering tricks.

So, as the various holiday seasons approach, why not share some of your knowledge with family/friends, to see if they are aware of how they might be vulnerable to the many different types of exploits making the rounds!

regards,

-rich

 

Very nice stuff Rmus! It's such a shame people get infected by these easily prevented exploits

 

Thanks for the heads up Rich. This one sounds nasty as it also disables safe mode.

From the isc.sans.org link:

Bolded words are very wise words indeed (bolding by me). Even better advice would be don't get infected in the first place.