Malware reportedly spotted in the wild using Sony’s security certificate

Dec09

by Sindy Cator on December 9, 2014 at 10:07 pm

After Sony’s passwords and security certificates leaked in plain-text, we’ve now reportedly seen the first piece of malware in the wild sporting Sony’s stolen security certificate. Kaspersky Labs reports that a new piece of malware called ‘Destover’ was compiled on December 5th uses the company’s security certificate to attack some Windows machines. Sony’s security certificates are trusted by some security solutions by default, meaning that computers are more likely to be infected without detection. Virustotal’s detection page notes that the malware is picked up by antivirus software around 65% of the time. It’s not entirely clear what the ‘Destover’ malware does, but…