New Back Door Attacks Windows Users Surfaces
Security firm Barracuda Networks says it espied a new virus that attacks to set up a back door on the systems of its victims. It’s disseminated via an e-mail proposing to be a Microsoft security update. Imagine there are still mass of users who can fall victim to bogus e-mails masked as a security update.
The virus, classified by Barracuda Central as “Trojan.Backdoor.Haxdoor, is handed over as an attachment to an e-mail allegedly from the Microsoft Security Assurance team and employs several innovative social engineering techniques, such as using Microsoft KnowledgeBase naming conventions for the file attachment, such as using Microsoft KnowledgeBase naming conventions for the file attachment. The e-mail informs the receiver that Microsoft company has lately released a Security Update for OS Microsoft Windows. The update employs to the following OS versions: Microsoft Windows 98, Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows Millenium, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista.