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 August Abolins to All 
 Possible Governmental Backdoor found 
 14 Nov 11 12:03:08 
 
Path: news.grc.com!.
From: Sabahattin Gucukoglu 
Newsgroups: grc.spyware
Subject: Possible Governmental Backdoor found
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 04:15:29 +0100
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http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00002249.html

Chaos Computer Club from Germany has tonight announced that they
have located a backdoor trojan used by the German Goverment.
The announcment was made public on ccc.de with a detailed 20-page
analysis of the functionality of the malware. Download the report in PDF (in
German) The malware in question is a Windows backdoor consisting of a DLL and
a kernel driver. The backdoor includes a keylogger that targets certain
applications.

These applications include Firefox, Skype, MSN Messenger, ICQ and
others. The backdoor also contains code intended to take screenshots and
record audio, including recording Skype calls.

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