Trojan.Taidoor takes aim at policy think tanks

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Trojan.Taidoor takes aim at policy think tanks
Botnet	Taidoor
Malware	Trojan.Taidoor
Botnet/malware group
Exploit kits
Services
Feature
Distribution vector
Target
Origin
Campaign
Operation/Working group
Vulnerability
CCProtocol
Date	2012 /
Editor/Conference	Symantec
Link	http://www.symantec.com/content/en/us/enterprise/media/security response/whitepapers/trojan taidoor-targeting think tanks.pdf symantec.com (PDF) (symantec.com (PDF) Archive copy)
Author	Stephen Doherty, Piotr Krysiu
Type

Abstract

“ Trojan.Taidoor has been consistently used in targeted attacks during the last three years. Since May 2011, there has been a substantial increase in its activity. Taidoor’s current targets are primarily private industry and influential international think tanks

with a direct involvement in US and Taiwanese affairs. Facilities in the services sector that these organizations may use have also been targeted. There are a number of additional ancillary targets. Trojan.Taidoor dates back to March 2008 and in-field telemetry has identified Taidoor being used in targeted attack emails since May 2009. Fourteen distinct versions and three separate families of the Trojan have been identified to date. The threat continues to evolve to suit the attackers’ requirements.

Bibtex

 @misc{2012BFR960,
   editor = {Symantec},
   author = {Stephen Doherty, Piotr Krysiu},
   title = {Trojan.Taidoor takes aim at policy think tanks},
   date = {26},
   month = Apr,
   year = {2012},
   howpublished = {\url{http://www.symantec.com/content/en/us/enterprise/media/security_response/whitepapers/trojan_taidoor-targeting_think_tanks.pdf symantec.com (PDF)}},
 }