Evernote account used to deliver instructions to malware
A piece of malicious software spotted by Trend Micro uses the note-taking service Evernote as a place to pick up new instructions.
The malware is a backdoor, or a kind of software that allows an attacker to execute various actions on a hacked computer. Trend Micro found it tries to connect to Evernote in order to obtain new commands.
"The backdoor may also use the Evernote account as a drop-off point for its stolen information," wrote Nikko Tamana, a Trend Micro threat response engineer. It's not unheard of for hackers to design malware to abuse legitimate services, either to make the malware more difficult to trace or give it a less suspicious profile. In the past, Twitter and Google Docs have been used by hackers to post instructions for their botnets...
