Craigslist has made some strides over the years in protecting its users from Internet predators, but for some hackers those strides are just another challenge to be surmounted.
That's the case with a Trojan aimed at the online classified advertising service and revealed last week by Solera, a Blue Coat company.
The malware is ending up on the computers of unsuspecting users who click an infected link they encounter on the Internet, expecting to receive an update to a fictitious program called Adobe Photo Loader. (See also "Lose the Trojan.")
After infecting a machine, the malware transforms the computer into a zombie for a botnet making spam postings to Craigslist for a program called Stealth Nanny. The Android app is designed to be planted on a person's phone so all their activity on the handset can be monitored by a snooper.
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