Well, I don't know if you're going to find this good news or bad news, but I found my notes and I
just remembered some more malware types that I wanted to talk to you about.
I knew that first video seemed a little short.
I mean, after all, malware is being created new forms all the time.
How about backdoors?
Yes.
We cannot forget about the variant called a backdoor.
This is going to be a communications channel that we did not intend that individual to have.
Now, one of the things that's interesting about this is when you really look at this, it is often
presented as someone that is unauthorized.
So someone that is an unauthorized person in this location.
Well, just keep in mind that that person could also be authorized to be there.
But the minute they open up some covert or overt channel and they do this backdoor, then that is what's
a violation.
Right.
So they're escalating their privileges to maybe move data through some other channel, and that is not
permitted based on their user role.
So they might be authorized to be there or not if they are doing a backdoor.
That is the issue.
Another thing to keep in mind is the variation called a rootkit.
Super scary.
This is code that will remain.
Its whole intent is to remain undetected as it's doing whatever it is it might be doing, maybe it's
allowing eavesdropping.
And so this what appears to be totally normal, benign looking program is actually a rootkit.
And it's giving some malicious type behavior.
Something to be aware of is adware.
I mentioned spyware, but adware is another variant.
Oh yeah.
How annoying.
The ads that just won't stop.
And you know that the people that perpetrate this, you know, they're sleeping well at night, right?
Because they're just rationalizing it as well.
Advertising is everywhere.
So, you know, I'm not harming anyone.
I'm just advertising to them when they didn't sign up for it.
This.
And that brings me to the last one that I wanted to mention to really round out this discussion, and
that is crypto.
What is a crypto?
Well, it will encrypt and decrypt code very efficiently, I might add, so that the code can bypass
some type of a security device.
Wow.
So, yeah, the attacker is they know that there's a good strong firewall between them and their target,
but they're sending in the payload anyways, thanks to the assistance of a tool called Decryptor.
Thanks so much for watching.