Showing posts with label Chromium Embedded Framework. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chromium Embedded Framework. Show all posts

Saturday, March 30, 2013

Backdoor Tidserv uses a Google developed platform


Symantec Corporation gives details about the complex threat activity Tidserv, which uses rootkit functionality, so that it is extremely difficult to detect. For the operation of malware essential medium Chromium Embedded Framework, so it is further pumped to the infected computer about 50 MB.

Tidserv (or TDL) - this is a complex threat that disguises itself in the system using rootkit technologies. Being discovered in 2008, it remains active to this day. Distributed across the web version Tidserv worked in its software platform Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF). Although this is not the first time that crackers use legitimate software for their own purposes, in this case for the correct operation of the virus is required to retrieve all components of the environment with total size of 50 MB, which is quite unusual for malware.