Keyboard character detectors spread in more than 50 countries
Real-time anti-spyware software company PC Tools has warned users about a dangerous software called Keylog-sters, which has gathered sensitive data from so many countries. gender.
Keylog-sters captures the screen of any website that has an account login field such as user name and password, then saves the information as a text file, uploads it to a private FTP server and sorts it into a folder named after the country where the victim is being monitored.
This is a new variant of Trojan Keylog-sters, which appeared about a year ago and is listed as highly dangerous."It works like regular character detection Trojans, but we've never seen a version spread like this," PC Tools spokesman said."Recently only a few hundred cases have been discovered in Australia, but in the UK, the US and other countries, the number of infected computers has reached thousands".
Banks, phone companies and airlines are some of the organizations that have been affected by the Trojan.
Meanwhile, F-Secure also announced the arrival of Nyxem.E, believed to be the new variant of Nyxem.D.The tool from the Finnish security company has counted more than half a million computer systems from Australia to the United States are infected and this number is still rising.
Large amounts of dangerous data are periodically activated on the 3rd of every month, by replacing content in .doc, .xls, .mdb, .mde, .ppt, .zip, .rar files. pdf, .psd and .dmp on user machines with the string "DATA Error [47 0F 94 93 F4 K5]".Thus, this worm affects a variety of programs from Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access to Photoshop and Acrobat.
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