Information from Symantec about Hydraq trojan worms

The Trojan.Hydraq worm was used to exploit the Zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer, reports from Symantec.

Since the news spread last week about Google threatening to withdraw from China, there have been rumors surrounding targeted attacks on the issue. Part of the controversial issues involved in the Trojan.Hydraq worm were used to exploit the Zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer.

The most recent events have caused more public attention to the Hydraq worm, although the Trojan itself is not new. Basically, this worm is very similar to the usual backdoor Trojan attacks, and it is not so complicated when compared to other types of malware that are being distributed online.

Based on the feature of this worm, we can surmise correctly that its purpose is to open a backdoor on the infected computer and allow the remote attacker to control the operation and Stealing information from not only an infected machine but on the IT infrastructure that the computer is connected to.