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Symantec: Posted code enables VoIP spying
- From: Brian Warkoczeski
- Date: Thu Sep 03 13:10:55 2009
Symantec: Posted code enables VoIP spying
by Larry Magid
September 2, 2009
www.cnet.com
Along with keyloggers that track what you type, now we have to worry
about malicious software that listens in on our voice over Internet
Protocol conversations.
A Symantec security blog on Thursday disclosed a new Trojan horse,
Tojan.Peskyspy "that records VoIP communications, specifically targeting
Skype." The posting, based on analysis from Symantec's Karthik Selvaraj,
pointed out that "its existence isn't due to any problems with Skype
itself" but that Skype may have been targeted "simply because it has
such a large install base."
Gerry Egan, Symantec's director of security response, says the Trojan is
capable of "hooking...through some Windows APIs into some audio streams"
that "can be intercepted, turned into MP3 files, and then sent over a
remote channel to a remote electronic eavesdropper."
For rest of the article, see:
http://news.cnet.com/security/?tag=hdr;snav
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