Sykipot,malware believed to originate in China, has been used to target smart cards in the Pentagon and other government agencies. According to security researcher AlienVault, a new variant of Sykipot is targeting the cards government employees use to access secure networks and servers.
“The attackers use a spear phishing campaign to get their targets to open a PDF attachment which then deposits the Sykipot malware onto their machine (the attackers here took advantage of a zero-day exploit in Adobe),” according to AlienVault.
Check out the video above to learn more.
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Mashable Video 14 Jan, 2012
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Source: http://mashable.com/2012/01/13/malware-government-agencies/
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