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2. Trojan horse (computing) - Wikipedia

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   Computer hacking. In computing, a Trojan horse (or simply Trojan) is any malware that misleads users of its true intent by disguising itself as a standard program. The term is derived from the ancient Greek story of the deceptive Trojan Horse that led to the fall of the city of Troy. [ 1]

3. Timeline of computer viruses and worms - Wikipedia

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   March 3: Torpig, also known as Sinowal and Mebroot, is a Trojan horse that affects Windows, turning off anti-virus applications. It allows others to access the computer, modifies data, steals confidential information (such as user passwords and other sensitive data) and installs more malware on the victim's computer.

4. Zeus (malware) - Wikipedia

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   Zeus is a Trojan horse malware package that runs on versions of Microsoft Windows. It is often used to steal banking information by man-in-the-browser keystroke logging and form grabbing. [ 1] Zeus is spread mainly through drive-by downloads and phishing schemes. First identified in July 2007 when it was used to steal information from the ...

5. Hardware Trojan - Wikipedia

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   A Hardware Trojan ( HT) is a malicious modification of the circuitry of an integrated circuit. A hardware Trojan is completely characterized by its physical representation and its behavior. The payload of an HT is the entire activity that the Trojan executes when it is triggered. In general, Trojans try to bypass or disable the security fence ...

6. Storm Worm - Wikipedia

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   The Storm Worm (dubbed so by the Finnish company F-Secure) is a phishing backdoor [ 1][ 2] Trojan horse that affects computers using Microsoft operating systems, [ 3][ 4][ 5] discovered on January 17, 2007. [ 3] The worm is also known as: The Storm Worm began attacking thousands of (mostly private) computers in Europe and the United States on ...

7. AIDS (Trojan horse) - Wikipedia

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   Authors. Dr. Joseph Popp. AIDS, also known as Aids Info Disk or PC Cyborg Trojan, is a DOS Trojan horse whose payload mungs and encrypts the names of all directories on drive C:. It was developed by Dr. Joseph Popp (1950-2006), an evolutionary biologist with a doctorate from Harvard. The virus was isolated in 1989.