Malware: a backdoor for Windows, OS X, Linux

To best optimize their chances of infecting users, cybercriminals have not chosen a single targeting Windows. Discovered by F-Secure on a Web site compromise Transportation Colombia, an attack can be adapted to infect the visitor to choose from Windows, OS X or Linux.

Mutiplateforme this side is given by a Java-based. When viewing a compromised Web page, a JAR (Java Archive, unsigned by a trusted authority) determines which environment operates under the user's computer before downloading the malware adequate.

The three malware (specific runtime environment) are mandated to connect to a remote server - and thus to open a backdoor - in order to download additional code to be executed. F-Secure warned that law. Kaspersky Lab also found a similar attack with the site of a water park in Spain.

This is not the first time that such a pattern occurs, as in the past with the use of a Java applet. For now, however, cases are rare.
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