Trojan Compromises Over 300,000 Accounts
Over the past three years a powerful Trojan maintained by a cybercrime organization has been responsible for stealing the usernames and passwords of nearly half a million bank accounts and nearly as many credit card numbers. Researchers captured some of the Trojan’s (known as Sinowal, Mebroot or Torpig) code and used it to track down its drop server full of the stolen information. Further research showed it’s been active since early 2006.
The Trojan works by waiting for the user to enter the URL for a banking or credit card site. Once it senses one, it replaces it with a fake one that captures the user’s details. So far it’s known to have the ability to sense nearly 3,000 different URLs, and is not detected by most anti-virus programs. It does this by using a rootkit to infect a PC’s master boot record, making it practically invisible.
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