Chinese Trojan blocks cloud-based security defences
Miscreants have released a Trojan specially designed to disable cloud-based anti-virus security defences.
The Bohu blocks connections from infected Windows devices and cloud anti-virus services in place to protect them. Malware writers have long included routines to disable components of desktop anti-virus software packages or block access to anti-virus websites from infected machines.
More and more security firms are beginning to adopt cloud-based anti-virus architectures, as they offer the twin benefits of a lesser performance overhead (all the heavy lifting is done on servers in the cloud not on the client) and faster response to the growing volume of malware threats. Bohu reflects the fact that the bad guys have once again adopted to the changes applied by security defenders.
