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Thursday, 6 November 2014

NEW TROJAN THAT STEALS PASSWORDS

There is a new deadly Trojan which steals classified data and passwords of users online when they try to log in their account details. The Cyber-Seurity sleuths have alerted online banking customers to beware of this malicious Trojan. This new banking Trojan dubbed known as 'Dyreza' are malware that targets mainly online banking users. It carries out it activity by using social engineering techniques or by using spam messages pretending to be genuine mail received from financial institution containing zip or pdf as an attachment. The zip contains a self executinh malware which will install itself immediately its been  extracted.
It is said that this malware is capable of wreaking havoc into a secure system. It is therefore suggested by the CERT-In that online banking customers should configure their email server to block or remove email that contains file attachments that are commonly used to spread threats such as vbs, bat, exe, pif etc, set internet and local intranet security zone settings to high, lock out accounts after number of incorrect login attempts.  

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