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Definition: wiretap Trojan


A voice over IP (VoIP) wiretap discovered in 2009 that is able to record Skype conversations and send them to the attacker. Named the Trojan.Peskyspy, it uses calls to the sound routines in Windows to extract the IP voice stream before it is encrypted. It saves the conversation in an MP3 file. See Trojan and Trojan dropper.