Received this today (10/26/2004) on the bugtraq@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
mailing list. May be of interest to the Fedora legacy group.
Best regards,
ral
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- Subject: Fake RedHat - Fedora Security Patch / Trojan Source Code & Analysis
- From: K-OTiK Security <Special-Alerts@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 25 Oct 2004 19:06:37 -0000
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Emails that pretend to come from the Red Hat Security Team are circulating in the wild. These emails tell users to download and install malicious updates. These trojan updates contain malicious code designed to compromise the systems they are run on.
Code and Analysis :
http://www.k-otik.com/news/FakeRedhatPatchAnalysis.txt
Regards.
K-OTik Security Research & Survey Team 24/7
http://www.k-otik.com
http://www.adconsulting.fr
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