Appeared Trojans spy on businesses

BitDefender warned of the dangers of a new spy Trojan described by them as " scary rivals ", which can be used as an enterprise scout tool.

Internet Security Specialist BitDefender says that Trojan.Spy.YEK " sniffs " important data and that archives can contain personal information and send them to an attacker.

Malware researchers (malware) Doina Cosovan and Octavian Minea of ​​BitDefender said, because Trojan.Spy.YEK has both spy and backdoor features, it is a terrifying opponent.

" A spy malware in the company's intranet means dangerous. Unfortunately, the number of such threats is constantly increasing, " the researchers said.

" With a .dll file encoded in its overlay, this Trojan is easily stored in windowssystem32netconf32.dll and once infected with explorer.exe, nothing can stop it from connecting (whenever Which is necessary) with the attacker, "the researchers said.

Backdoor spyware (spyware)

" The backdoor component helps malware register itself as a service to receive and follow instructions from a command and control center, while the spyware component sends data about files, operating systems, and simultaneously. also made many screenshots of ongoing processes . "

Trojan.Spy.YEK searches all that is stored: e-mail (.eml, .dbx), address book (.wab), databases and documents (.doc, .odt,. pdf, .). That makes this Trojan the leading suspect of corporate espionage because it targets private data of companies.

Two researchers Cosovan and Minea said that Trojans can run no problem on all versions of Windows, from Windows 95 to Windows 7.