Its stealthily passing messages back and forth without even having to press send.
You never see the bullet fired.
Modus Operandi
Shape Security said that this was how this new kind of malware work.
The cyber criminal / hacker first set up an anonymous Gmail account.
He then proceeded to infect the victims computer with the malware.
Readers may not that Microsoft Windows lets Internet Explorer run by itself.
This is allowed by the Windows programs so that they can seamlessly query web pages for information.
All the communication is encoded to prevent it being spotted by intrusion detection or data-leak prevention.
Shape found out about the latest variant IcosSript, when one of their clients was infected with the same.
source: www.techworm.net
