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Skype Spy Trojan Escapes into Wild - [security]
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Only days after Swiss programmer Ruben Unteregger released the source code for a Trojan he wrote three years ago to hack Skype phone calls, the inevitable has happened -- someone has released it as a compiled piece of 'faux' malware.
Now Symantec and Trend Micro have reported that a Windows Trojan with remarkably similar characteristics has turned up in their detection systems, Trojan.PeskySpy in Symantec nomenclature, and Troj_Spayke.C to Trend. Neither company states openly that the Trojan detected is related to Unteregger's open source creation, but there are enough clues to forge a strong connection.

Symantec describes how the Trojan intercepts API calls to Skype, capturing and storing audio conversations as MP3 files with caller, date, day and time stamps to identify them, and SkypeOut and SkypeIn call designations. The Trojan then attempts to upload the recordings to pre-defined locations after detecting and attempting to bypass named firewall filters.

This design perfectly echoes Unteregger's 'Bundestrojaner', as it was dubbed when it first appeared in honour of its use by government. Trend's analysis also makes partially obfuscated reference to the domain used by Unteregger to distribute his code.

It is not clear whether the Trojan actually carries out all of the activities of which it is capable, or that it does anything that would count as illegal beyond infecting a PC without consent.


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