Kaspersky researchers have uncovered malware which does not install any files onto a victims machine - Describing the malware as both “unique” and “very rare”, the malware "uses its payload to inject an encrypted DLL from the web directly into the memory of the javaw.exe process.” they say.
The Duqu Trojan, referred to by some as Stuxnet 2.0, was partly written using an unknown programming language. The payload DLL, which communicates exclusively with the Command and Control (C&C) server so that the worm knows what to do once it has infected a system, has code that doesn’t resemble anything seen before. While secuirty researchers have worked out what the mystery code does, they aren’t sure about the syntax.
An internet security firm has criticised Facebook for releasing details of the alleged members of a gang behind the Koobface worm, a piece of malicious software that attacked hundreds of thousands of computers through the social network's profiles.
In an unusual step in January, Facebook named six Russian men it said had been running the two million dollar scam against its members for the past three years.
