Tag: skype
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VB2014 paper: Caphaw – the advanced persistent pluginer
Micky Pun and Neo Tan analyse the banking trojan that is best known for spreading through Skype. Since the close of the VB2014 conference in Seattle in October, we have been sharing VB2014 conference papers as well as video recordings of the presentations. Today, we have added ‘Caphaw – the advanced persistent pluginer’ by Fortinet…
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Microsoft ‘found to make requests’ to URLs shared via Skype
HEAD requests likely used to determine landing page. Is Microsoft checking all the links you share via Skype ? German online magazine Heise thinks so. A reader of security magazine Heise discovered that all URLs sent via Skype chat received a request from an IP address that was registered with Microsoft (which bought Skype in…
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Do we need stronger email addresses?
Skype vulnerability allowed for account hijacking using only email address. A worryingly trivial vulnerability in VoIP service Skype became public this morning, which allowed anyone to take over a user’s Skype account using nothing but the email address linked to the account. The method – which was posted on Russian underground forums a few months…
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New worm spreading via Skype
Multilingual malware posing as porn in chat messages. VoIP and chat system Skype has been targeted by another worm, sending chat messages to harvested contacts posing as links to pornographic images, which in fact download and install copies of the worm. The new malware has been variously dubbed ‘Pykspa.D’, ‘Skipi.A’, ‘Ramex.a’ and ‘Pykse.b’. The fake…