Is this on Windows or Android?
New trend: Trojan which steals your pics instead of your text
Miscreants have developed a strain of malware that steals image files from compromised systems. The Pixsteal-A Trojan dispenses with the conventional tactic of only stealing text files, instead concentrating on uploading .jpg, .jpeg, and .dmp (memory dump) files from infected machines onto a remote FTP server. The switch in …
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Tuesday 6th November 2012 08:59 GMT Sooty
Sounds pretty stupid to me
All you need to do is accidentally infect a pc full of child porn and it will start uploading it to your servers.
Police may not really care too much about you nicking a few people's bank details, but they'll certainly come after you for a server full of kiddy porn. It also has the effect of giving whoever you get it from an 'out'... "My pc is infected with malware which is communicating with a server full of it? Well it must have been put there by the Trojan."
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Tuesday 6th November 2012 09:12 GMT Anonymous Coward
Would be money well spent
if the miscreants will sort through the tens of thousands of snaps I've taken and never got around to sifting through. In the days of film I had to think "is this worth a buck?" before pressing the button, now I just think "still most of a terabyte still free".
In fact I'll pay them double if they delete the crappier ones and tag the people!
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Tuesday 6th November 2012 10:47 GMT Annihilator
Gigabytes
Well, when I think about the quantity of jpegs I have on my systems, and think about the length of time it took to backup to Carbonite on a DSL line, they'll probably have a looooooot of sifting through innocuous pictures of landscapes before finding anything remotely salacious. By which time, you'd think someone would notice their internet running slowly.
Finally, BT saves us with their crap infrastructure!
Although a good trojan would scan the files locally, looking for a higher proportion of pink hues and selectively uploading to reduce the bandwidth requirements and increase the chances of success..
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Wednesday 7th November 2012 04:18 GMT Allan George Dyer
back to the real world...
Although the "trojan-stole-my-porn-collection" scenarios are amusing, have you thought about how many business documents are stored as images? With images of a company letterhead, director's signature and a fax-modem (why do people still use fax?), you could do some quite lucrative fraud. Or merely search the images for company "secrets".
OK, I'll get my coat. A final thought, who's stupid enough to write a trojan to steal porn when there's an internet full of free stuff?