Anonymous is creating Guy Fawkes virus
By Gina on November 14, 2011 | Malware, malware, Guy Fawkes malware, Anonymous, Facebook
It seems like a Security Outfit has found Guy Fawkes threat which acts like the virus that Anonymous was working on. This big hackers group claimed they are working on a malware which may be used to destroy Facebook.
Bitdefender says it identified a piece of scam which looks like and acts like the virus that Anonymous is creating. This peace of malware was called backdoor-Bifrose-AAJX by an e-threats analyst at Bitdefender Razvan Livintz.
Razvan Livintz commented: “The same day, it appeared on Facebook under the guise of a scam purporting to offer a "New Facebook Video Chat with Voice Features", according to its description (which, by the way, is in Arabic), if the unwary user follows a link and downloads an archive named scan_facebook.zip.“ „Once it compromises a system, Backdoor-Bifrose-AAJX does pretty much what the hacktivists say, which is: injects itself in IE process, provides a remote attacker unhindered access to the compromised system, records keystrokes and kills several processes of known anti malware solutions, if installed on the computer,“ he added.
However, malware does not have self copying characteristics, like the one Anonymous was talking about and it is not mentioned in the video that malware connects to a remote server in Egypt.
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