Life immitating art. Nothing new. Just like the promise of seeing Britney Spears naked leads to a complete loss of data, the promise of gaining information and knowledge on the highly misunderstood Kama Sutra lures many. The trojan called Troj/Bckdr-RFM loads into the system (of course a windows OS) while the viewer is being distracted by illustrations from ancient texts in a powerpoint presentation. Some things will never change 🙂
Sophos picked up this little doozie labelled as the Troj/Bckdr-RFM. The hacker that sends it can steal personal information and spy on users’ activities or use the machine for nefarious deeds such as sending spam or attacking websites. It basically like most other trojans these days; uses your computer like SETI did, however instead of the promise of the chance of finding a callsign of alien life, you are part of a network of orchestrated attacks against “the man”.
I wonder if one day they will make “being infected by a virus through negligence, that leads to the contribution toward a bot army” a crime.
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