Skype continues to be 'raided'

Within a month, Skype was twice attacked by hackers using Trojans, and the way they used it was a fake software called Skype Defender.

Immediately after Skype signed a deal with MySpace about its VoIP service upgrade, the Skype service was attacked by Trojan, the second time within a month.

According to a report from Information Week, McAfee security researchers have found a Trojan PWS-Pykse virus that hackers target people using Skype with a new technique: lure users to run a fake program with a name. Skype Defender for bad purposes.

According to information from Skype Security, in this case, Skype Defender acts as an information stealer. A confirmation window will appear with information: ' Skype-Defender (TM) Installed! Please login to account to apply new plugins ' (Skype-Defender (TM) is installed! Please login to your account to activate the new utility.)

When the user clicks the ' OK ' button, Skype's login screen will appear, but there are some other points in the Sign In button, when the username and password are entered, the screen will show that the Invalid data entered. Meanwhile, the user's information has been saved for hackers to use for bad purposes.

According to McAfee, there are no links on the login screen that can work.

Skype Security recommends that: ' To counter this fake software, users should install or update one of the following antivirus software: F-Secure, TrendMicro, Symantec, WebSense, and FaceTime Security Labs or manually delete the installation file 65404-SkypeDefenderSetup.exe . '

Thanh Tiep