Turla Linux Trojan (#isoeh) Turla has been in the news in the - TopicsExpress



          

Turla Linux Trojan (#isoeh) Turla has been in the news in the past month for being one of the most complex Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) uncovered by researchers at Kaspersky Lab. Whats more suprising is that its the first Turla sample targeting the Linux operating system Coding Anatomy: ->Linux-based Turla malware is written in C and C++ languages and contains code from previously written libraries. ->Uses hidden network communication and stripped of symbol information ->Extremely hard for researchers to reverse engineer or analyze. Attack vector: ->The backdoor sits inactive until hackers send it unusually crafted packets that contain magic numbers in their sequence numbers. ->Ability to remain idle on victims computers for years! ->Attack functionalities including arbitrary remote command execution, incoming packet interception and remote management without root privileges
Posted on: Tue, 06 Jan 2015 05:56:00 +0000

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