HAMMERTOSS: New Russian Malware

Schneier on Security 2015-07-31

Summary:

FireEye has a detailed report of a sophisticated piece of Russian malware: HAMMERTOSS. It uses some clever techniques to hide: The Hammertoss backdoor malware looks for a different Twitter handle each day -- automatically prompted by a list generated by the tool -- to get its instructions. If the handle it's looking for is not registered that day, it merely...

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Tags:

twitter steganography russia malware backdoors

Authors:

schneier

Date tagged:

07/31/2015, 12:31

Date published:

07/31/2015, 12:12