What do you do when ‘Amazon.co.uk’ sends
you an email saying that they will take money out
of your bank account for things you have never bought?
Anxiety and fear of identity theft might just take
you over, forcing you to click on the mail and see
what they are talking about. Well, the moment you
run the exe in mail, a password stealing Trojan slips
into your computer!
Security experts at MicroWorld Technologies inform
that a new variant of the password stealing Trojan-Spy.Win32.Banker.t
or PWSteal.Tarno.T comes to you from the mail id ‘payments-support@amazon.co.uk’
with a subject line ‘Your payment done’.
Like many recent worms, ‘shock’ is the
weapon of proliferation for ‘Banker.t’ too.
Written in business lingo, the mail says that the
victim has initiated a payment to amazon and funds
of the same will be transferred in 3 days. It even
gives an email address to be contacted incase of disputes,
which apparently is same as that of the id from where
the email is sent.
After gaining a foothold, it starts downloading more
malicious code from the net. The Trojan steals usernames
and passwords entered on e-commerce and online banking
websites and sends that to a remote attacker, who
will make merry with this confidential personal financial
information.
“Of late, most Trojans are equipped with keyloggers,
form stealers, screen capturing abilities and many
other techniques to drain as much information as possible
from the infected computer. With their upgradable
nature, these Trojans can eventually gather everything
that you have on your PC. Those regularly indulging
in online financial activity need to be extremely
cautious about this kind of Trojans,” observes
Govind Rammurthy, CEO, MicroWorld Technologies.
With newer and smarter ways of Social Engineering
applied by virus writers, it’s becoming increasingly
harder for users to separate the wheat from chaff,
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