[Fwd: Fake RedHat - Fedora Security Patch / Trojan Source Code & Analysis]

[ral77 <ral77 bellsouth net>]

Received this today (10/26/2004) on the bugtraq securityfocus com 
mailing list. May be of interest to the Fedora legacy group.

Best regards,
ral

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• From: K-OTiK Security <Special-Alerts k-otik com>
• To: bugtraq securityfocus com
• Subject: Fake RedHat - Fedora Security Patch / Trojan Source Code & Analysis
• Date: 25 Oct 2004 19:06:37 -0000

Emails that pretend to come from the Red Hat Security Team are circulating in the wild. These emails tell users to download and install malicious updates. These trojan updates contain malicious code designed to compromise the systems they are run on. 

Code and Analysis :
http://www.k-otik.com/news/FakeRedhatPatchAnalysis.txt

Regards.
K-OTik Security Research & Survey Team 24/7
http://www.k-otik.com
http://www.adconsulting.fr

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