IM, Security hidden crisis
Date: November 13, 2007
News Source:epochtimes
transmission on the Internet to exchange messages with each other very common, but the company stressed that the security of information, sharing an interesting animation or game could have stolen confidential information company, recently observed, through instant messaging software is not only the exchange of information often is not easy Security aware of the crisis, a more well-known cross-border service industry in the day, there were 986 times the chance to be the same threat of malicious Web site.
IT security firm Trend Micro has found cases in the same day Halloween employees with MSN-an interesting little program ─ "The Skeleton Dance" (Dancing Skeleton) game sharing Web site to a friend, but received a friend Warned that the site contains malicious attacks have been gateway antivirus end system to intercept.
analysis found that the site Halloween.exe - "The Skeleton Dance" As a matter of fact the game is the use of a festival program as a cover up the attack. Once the web browser that will automatically download the implementation, the user does not have been consciously attacked.
Trend Micro pointed out that the investigation into the malicious program to a malicious website belonging to the famous "Storm Series family," the latest attacks on the social model. By the end of every Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year celebrations, festivals and related malicious applet of the game deceiving users are often used as the bait.
Once users inadvertently taken, the Trojan horse program will start the download and other malicious files, connect to the Web site in order to establish point-to-point control of the zombie network (botnet), so that the PC automatically download adware, Spyware and other malicious programs to send spam to become a puppet, but also further links to the zombie network to download virus-download (Downloader), in order to update the virus, and further to steal corporate secrets.
another case from a large-scale enterprise gateway antivirus end statements for the data system, within one month, the gateway side to block more than 520,000 offenses, including non-business website in line with the norms of the game, such as Web site links, stock, and other sites, An average of more than 17,000 a day, every hour conversion at least 708, of which just a malicious Web site on the day side by anti-virus gateway system to block 986 times.
Trend Micro announced by the "Taiwan-funded enterprise zone annual report of a threat to security," pointed out that 96% of the virus are in the "client" was found underlines the fact that companies in the gateway control security side the lack of staff and lack of security awareness. If the Web site after hacker purposefully, disguised as a search list of keywords, or follow the example of Halloween virus, to set traps in the name festivals, business has long been stationed in malicious programs.
Trend Micro, a senior technical marketing manager reminded Daishen friends, great importance must end anti-virus gateway system, can do a good job at the gateway side of the well-defense mechanism, as the officers to intercept drug traffickers rely on immigrants, the hacker can be avoided Threats, to ensure the security of information networks.