First worms, now Trojans
p2pnet.net News:- Bagle eating worms are far from being the only e-vermin computer users need to worry about.
Trojans sent out en masse to scarf up highly confidential data such as details on bank accounts and other personal information are everywhere online.
“There’s no doubt that we are seeing an increase in interest amongst the malware writing community in Trojan horses and hacking into remote computers,” says virus expert Graham Cluley. “It is more and more common today to find a piece of malware has a ‘phishing’ payload.”
Senior technology consultant at Sophos, Cluley is reported by PCPro here as saying his company issued alerts for five new Trojans in the last couple of days, with more discovered today.
“The latest, LDPinch-G, steals information on the infected computer’s OS version, memory, CPU and so on, available drives (drive letter, type and free space), hostname and IP address, Windows folder volume information, installation details and data stored in the registry for selected software, including ICQ and Trillian, passwords and confidential information from ‘Protected Storage’, POP3 and IMAP server information, usernames and passwords, FTP usernames and passwords and RAS dial-up settings and then sends it back to the remote hacker,” he states.
“Once a backdoor has been placed on a computer, not only can information be stolen but in many cases the computer can be exploited for other purposes – such as sending spam. Something like 30 per cent of all spam is being sent unwittingly from innocent computers that have been compromised,’ he warned.
“And some Trojans are being actively spammed out.”
