New Malware Variant Uses Google Docs As a Proxy To Phone Home 85
An anonymous reader writes "Windows 8 may block most malware out of the box, but there is still malware out there that thwarts Microsoft's latest and greatest. A new Trojan variant, detected as Backdoor.Makadocs and spread via RTF and Microsoft Word document marked as Trojan.Dropper, has been discovered that not only adds a clause to target Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012, but also uses Google Docs as a proxy server to phone home to its Command & Control (C&C) server."
Re:Account suspension (Score:5, Informative)
The malware is not using Google Accounts at all. It is using Google Docs, literally, as a web proxy server. It is using the Google Docs Viewer (the one that can help view online PDFs and Docs in read only mode, without downloading it to your local system), to pass information to the C&C server. The only way Google can prevent this is, by using a captcha for suspicious requests.
Sounds just like IRC (Score:5, Informative)
Sounds just like all the other malware which used to connect to IRC to take its orders. Only difference is the protocol now.