Our good friends at Hanoi, Viet Nam, -based security firm Bkis have written about an interesting malcode lure: Trojans masquerading as updates for popular applications such as Adobe, Java or Windows.
The fake updates are distributed with icons of the application they�re impersonating.
Analyst Nguyen Cong Cuong wrote: �In addition, on being executed, they immediately turn on the following services: DHCP client, DNS client, Network share and open port to receive hacker�s commands.�
As a countermeasure, it would be a good idea to ignore any email you receive with a link or attachment that claims to be an update. Use the �updater� or �check for updates� menu choice on the application or Windows implementation that�s installed on your machine.
Bkis blog piece here.
Tom Kelchner
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