Back door detected in netsarang software

NetSarang is well-known business software, making it one of the favorite victims of hacker attacks as well. And every time we see how the attacks become quieter and more dangerous. That is what has happened in this case. A group of hackers has managed to infiltrate the latest NetSarang update.

Backdoor detected in NetSarang software

As expected, they were not going to miss this opportunity. And they have created a back door in the software in question. A total of 17 days have had to pass since that for them to have been discovered by researchers. Time in which they have been able to do many things.

Attack on NetSarang

NetSarang is used by many companies worldwide. From banks, to transport companies or energy companies. So the amount of data that is handled is gigantic. The researchers believe that they managed to create such a back door by modifying the software. It has in fact been confirmed that they changed the software packages with modified versions on the download servers.

Kaspersky Lab, who detected the problem, reported to NetSarang on August 4 about the problem. Moment in which both got down to work in solving this problem. The back door was connected every eight hours to the server. During that time an attacker can download and execute code.

At the moment it seems that the problem of NetSarang is solved. At least that has been hinted. What has not been revealed have been the damages or effects that this problem has caused to the company. So we expect more data soon.