Ethical Hacking: Worm, Virus & Trojan Horse Some of the skills that hackers have are programming and computer networking skills. They often use these skills to gain access to systems. The objective of targeting an organization would be to steal sensitive data, disrupt business operations or physically damage computer-controlled equipment. Some of the ways that … Read more
A wide range of tools exist that are used to take control of a victim’s system and leave behind a gift in the form of a backdoor. This is not an exhaustive list, and newer versions of many of these are released regularly: let me rule—A remote access Trojan authored entirely in Delphi. It uses … Read more
A Trojan can be detected in many ways. Port scanning, which can prove very effective if you know what to look for. Because a Trojan is used to allow access through backdoors or covert channels, a port must be opened to allow this communication. A port scan using a tool such as Nmap reveals these … Read more
One of the older and potentially widely misunderstood forms of malware is the Trojan. Simply put, a Trojan is a software application that is designed to provide covert access to a victim’s system. The malicious code is packaged in such a way that it appears harmless and thus gets around both the scrutiny of the … Read more