Peaches Posted June 17, 2010 Report Share Posted June 17, 2010 Jun16 Months-Old Skype Vulnerability Exploited in the Wild Cybercriminals have once again used a not-so-new but still a seemingly promising medium for their malware campaigns. Earlier today, ZDNet reported a "new" exploit that targets Skype users. This exploit takes advantage of a vulnerability in a Skype component—EasyBits Extras Manager. While the exploit was found and fixed as early as October 2009, many users are still running older, vulnerable versions. The vulnerability is being used to download malicious files, among them a ZBOT variant, TROJ_ZBOT.COC. As is typical of ZBOT variants, it steals a user's personal information, particularly those related to online banking. Good thing that Trend Micro already had coverage for these payloads many months before the cyber-criminals actually made use of this Skype vulnerability described above as a means to deploy these malicious codes!!More details & screenshot here: http://blog.trendmicro.com/ Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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