Researchers at AlientVault have uncovered a new strain of Sykipot Trojan
which has been used to compromise the Department of Defense-sanctioned
smart cards used to authorise network and building access at many US
government agencies, the Trojan has been adapted by Chinese hackers in
order to lift credentials from compromised systems in order to access
classified military networks. The Trojan inadvertently targets PCs
attached to smart card readers running ActivClient, the client
application of ActivIdentity, in what's been described as a 'smart card
proxy' attack.
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