Online games in Asia are attacked by trojans

ESET security firm has warned about new types of Trojans, aiming to shoot online gamers in Asia.

ESET's ThreatSense.Net virus scanning tool has detected a significant number of W32 / PSW.Agent.NDP infected computers in millions of computers around the world. The Trojan steals information stored on the computer, then sends it to an owner hacker.

" Agent.NDP is an interesting attacker, because it doesn't exploit any security holes, and doesn't have its own bulk mailing mechanism, " ESET expert Pierre Marc Bureau said. know.

" Colloquially, the purpose of Trojans is to steal identity information and open the backdoor for other malware to come in. As our observation, it seems that Agent.NDP pays particular attention to online game players. Chinese routes, they often steal the victim's username and password .

Online games in Asia are attacked by trojans Picture 1 Source: LineageII According to ESET's explanation, it is very likely that this Trojan has been installed on the computer after the user accidentally clicked on the malicious link on the website, or it may have disguised as a utility application to trick people. use download.

Once successfully sneaked into the machine, Agent.NDP will copy itself to the temporary folder of the computer, then write a DLL. This DLL code will be implanted into explorer.exe to track most system actions and hunt for valuable information.

In addition to W32 / PSW.Agent.NDP, another Trojan that raged in October was INF / Autorun, which accounted for 3.45% of all scanned computers.

This is a combination of multiple malware that uses the autorun.inf file to run the program automatically without any user intervention.

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