…Conversation – Skype Trojan in the Wild

There is evidence that there is a Skype trojan in the wild:

“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 Trojans then attempts to upload the recordings to pre-defined locations after detecting and attempting to bypass named firewall filters.”

This could be extremely dangerous for companies using Skype for cheap international calls. It should be noted, however, that it isn’t clear whether the trojan actually does all of the things it is designed to do.

Risk is listed as low, but it is interesting to see that someone has done this. There is also talk that it is code that was originally written for commercial purposes that has now found its way to the open source market.

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