Not quite happy with killing people on tv as well as in prose, serial killer anti-hero Dexter has moved onto computer systems too, with new adware and spyware buying and selling around the popular Showtime series fame to contaminate Computers.
Based on Russian cybersecurity company Kaspersky Labs, the Duqu adware and spyware featured a mention of the both Dexter and Showtime within the original Microsoft Word document e-mailed towards the virus first victim. The infected file connected to the email was entitled Dexter Regular, and contained the written text Copyright (c) 2003 Showtime Corporation. All privileges reserved. DexterRegularDexter RegularVersion 1.00 Dexter is really a registered trademark of Showtime Corporation.
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The e-mail that contains the Dexter Regular file was sent from an Ip in Columbia, but Kapersky s Alex Gostev thinks that computer has additionally been infected by some type of adware and spyware, and was adopted unconsciously (to the owner) to transmit the e-mail.
The Duqu adware and spyware first made an appearance in April, and it has been in comparison using the Stuxnet adware and spyware that assaulted Iranian nuclear centrifuges this past year. It's been related to multiple attacks on European companies within the last couple of several weeks clearly, something which the imaginary Dexter would not agree to.
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