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	Hackers exploit crisis in Burma to spread Trojan horse

Rasmus

10-2-2007 8:45 AM

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trojan horse, virus, internet security, burma

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10-3-2007 5:28 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/7630d8ec-6008-41f6-a26e-d7a9427634c8/BD8CF86B-2BF5-43C4-8C8E-FFAEC1390649/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.sophos.com/pressoffice/news/articles/2007/09/burma.html" href="http://www.sophos.com/pressoffice/news/articles/2007/09/burma.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.sophos.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.sophos.com/pressoffice/news/articles/2007/09/burma.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.sophos.com/img/6CB31386-AFF1-4CC6-92A1-C6D93FE7E6D9" alt="The email links to the genuine Dalai Lama website" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.sophos.com/pressoffice/news/articles/2007/09/burma.html">Taking advantage of international concern regarding the daily demonstrations in Burma,</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.sophos.com/pressoffice/news/articles/2007/09/burma.html"><P>a malicious email which claims to be a message of support for monks and other protesters in Burma from the Dalai Lama.  In reality, however, it carries a malicious attack designed to infect the recipient's PC.
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The email reads as follows:
</p> <DIV class="indented">
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<TT>Dear Friends & Colleagues, Please find enclosed a massage from His 
Holiness the Dalai Lama in support of the recent pro-democracy demonstrations taking place in Burma. This is for your information and can be distributed as you see fit.</TT>
</p> <P>
<TT>Best wishes.</TT>
</p> <P>
<TT>Tenzin Taklha</TT>
<TT>Joint Secretary</TT>
<TT>Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama</TT>
</p> </DIV>
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When users open the attached document (filename: <TT>hhdl burma_001.doc</TT>),
it attempts to exploit a Word vulnerability which in turn tries to
drop a Trojan horse onto the victim's PC.  Sophos proactively
detects the malicious document as <A href="http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/exp1tableb.html">Exp/1Table-B</A> and the Trojan it tries to install as <A href="http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojagentgcu.html">Agent-CGU</A>.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/BD8CF86B-2BF5-43C4-8C8E-FFAEC1390649/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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