Papua New Guinea. Channel Islands. Burkina Faso. South Sudan. Saint Lucia. New Zealand. Equatorial Guinea. Isle of Man. New Caledonia. Hong Kong. Cayman Islands. San Marino. Faeroe Islands. Sint Maarten. Sierra Leone. Vincent Grenadines. Sao Tome and Principe. Antigua and Barbuda.
Saint Martin. British Virgin Islands. Caribbean Netherlands. Turks and Caicos. Saint Kitts and Nevis. Diamond Princess. Wallis and Futuna. Saint Pierre Miquelon. Falkland Islands. Vatican City. Solomon Islands. Western Sahara. MS Zaandam.
Marshall Islands. Saint Helena. The latter can serve up one of three exploits, depending on the version of Flash that it finds. To check, it passes information back to the server, encoded again as a GIF file. The server passes back a code to denote one of three Flash vulnerability exploits, along with the required password shell code to download the final payload. It does yet another check for certain file types to ensure it's not being snooped on by a security analyst. If nothing is detected, the payload is downloaded and launched.
From there, you can be infected with a backdoor, keylogger, screenshot maker and video maker. At that point, thieves can steal any file, and as mentioned, they've been targeting the banking sector and probing for weaknesses that would presumably allow them to steal or extort cash. All of that seems pretty elaborate, but it apparently paid off. All of this could be avoided by by "running fully patched software and using a reliable, updated internet security solution," the Eset researchers say.
Eset sells just such a product, naturally. And of course, by not using Internet Explorer in the first place. Sign up. Malware infects computers by hiding in browser ad GIFs The "Steganos" exploit kit went undetected for two years by avoiding security analysts' computers.
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