Sunday, November 10, 2013

Skype bugs - Republic

by Roman Bosiacki

source: Fotorzepa

class=”author”> guu 10-11-2013

experts from ESET’s Virus Lab intercepted a spy program that tracks and records the conversations through popular instant messaging like Skype, ICQ or Jabber

ESET warns of another threat. The users can fall victim to instant messaging: Skype, ICQ, AIM, MSN Messenger, Jabber, GoogleTalk, Digsby, ICQ, Miranda, Pidgin, Spik, Stefan and Konnekt.

marked the intercepted threat as MSIL / Spy.Agent.NB and classify it as spyware by.

application listens to its users, by means of a built-in or connected to a computer microphone and record the text entered by the user via the keyboard. In addition, he can register the addresses of visited web pages, to save your password to your Wi-Fi or remember the name of the programs on the infected computer.

As reported by ESET, the application has Polish roots – it has created a Pole, or a person who knows the Polish language. This is indicated by the name of the components of the program code.

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