Trojan exploits Sony DRM rootkit

mimo2005 · 11-10-2005, 05:12 PM

BRITISH FIRM Sophos said that a Trojan which exploits Sony's DRM copy protection is in the wild.
The Stinx-E trojan appears to have been spammed to email addresses under the guise of a message with files like Article+Photos.exe.

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=27608

http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/21...ony-drm?page=2

**RavenMind** · 11-11-2005, 01:44 AM

Wow, that was fast! Thank you ever so much Sony... :nonono:

MicroBell · 11-11-2005, 02:20 PM

Because of this new trojan, customer complaints and overall bad press...Sony BMG caves to consumer demands!

Quote:

…Music publisher Sony BMG said on Friday it would stop making CDs that use a controversial technology to protect its music against illegal copying.

"As a precautionary measure, Sony BMG is temporarily suspending the manufacture of CDs containing XCP technology," it said in a statement.

http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/news...archived=False

*Note*

Kaspersky, Sophos, and McAfee already detect this rootkit as a trojan and Sophos says they will have a tool to detect and remove this infection later today. I would assume the other Antivirus vendors will follow suite shortly.

Detected as:

Kaspersky=Backdoor.Win32.Breplibot.b
Sophos=Troj/Stinx-E
McAfee=W32/Brepibot virus

Tools then can detect this trojan right now!

RootkitRevealer

F-Secure's Blacklight

11-10-2005, 05:12 PM	#1 (permalink)
mimo2005 Manager, Emeritus Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 11,142 OS: xp	Trojan exploits Sony DRM rootkit BRITISH FIRM Sophos said that a Trojan which exploits Sony's DRM copy protection is in the wild. The Stinx-E trojan appears to have been spammed to email addresses under the guise of a message with files like Article+Photos.exe. http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=27608 http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/21...ony-drm?page=2 __________________ TSF has outgrown its server, again. Please help "Gutta cavat lapidem, non vi sed saepe cadendo"

11-11-2005, 01:44 AM	#2 (permalink)
RavenMind Lazy Bum Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Salt Lake Posts: 1,015 OS: XP Home SP3/Vista	Wow, that was fast! Thank you ever so much Sony... :nonono: