Trojans steal 100,000 personally identifiable information
Security experts are warning a kind of data theft trojan through online advertising on job sites. Most recently, the Prg Trojan has taken over 100,000 personally identifiable information.
Security experts are warning a kind of data theft trojan through online advertising on job sites. Most recently, the Prg Trojan has taken over 100,000 personally identifiable information.
Don Jackson, a security expert with Secure Works, said he had found 12 data warehouses by a group of hackers using the latest version of Prg Trojan , such as Ntos , Tcp Trojan , Zeus , Infostealer. Monstres and Banker.aam .
Among these 12 data warehouses, there are several information stores of 4,000 to 6,000 victims. Another repository contains about 10,000 information and the largest repository contains up to 46,000.
" This number is four times larger than the previous cases I have known ," Jackson said. " That shows hackers are using different methods to do what they want or they have found a method. effective to do that . '
The data they get includes credit account information, bank accounts, ID numbers, online payment accounts and passwords. This is the victim's information lost due to Trojan infection from early May this year.
Jackson said the latest Prg Trojan variant was running on fake advertising websites. " Hackers use online advertising information on sites that search for jobs and put trojans on those advertisements. When users view or click on these ads, the computer will be infected with trojans, from that hackers can get victims ' financial information, bank . "
The Trojan is programmed to exploit many software bugs in Micosoft's Internet Explorer (MST), WinZip and QuickTime.
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