Security experts at MicroWorld
Technologies, inform that a new keylogging Trojan
comes with the capacity to capture even mouse clicks
to steal financial and other confidential information.
A new variant of ‘Trojan-Spy.Win32.Banbra.bd’,
also known as ‘PWSteal.Bancos.Q’, is a Trojan
that captures complete information on the computer
screen as well as mouse clicks to make it quiet an
advancement in identity theft.
Banbra Trojan is primarily aimed at banks like ‘Westpac’
who recently introduced virtual keyboards to tackle
the menace of normal keyboards being attacked continuously
by Keyloggers. Now, by trailing your mouse clicks,
the monkey is right on your back, prying on every
single activity on your computer, all time.
This breed of Trojan can be devastating, if used
during the current season of Tax returns, to steal
personal information from unsuspecting tax payers,
especially in United States. The IRS Tax Refund Phishing
scam and keylogger attacks on tax payers, that took
place last year, are ominous of this Trojan’s
use in newer avenues.
“This development indicates that Virus writers
are keen to match strides with innovations in technology.
If one thought that by introducing virtual keyboards
you can eliminate keylogging threats, this one just
goes to prove that they too are evolving really fast,”
observes Govind Rammurthy, CEO, MicroWorld
Technologies.
The recent incidents like Brazilian keylogger attack
on major banks and robbery of French bank accounts
by Russian hackers, show that worms and Trojans are
the best buddies of these gangs. While it’s a
basic necessity to have an AntiVirus software on computers,
users would well be advised to check how the system
reacts to new and emerging threats. If your protection
is not effective in fast discovery of new viruses,
if it does not provide you a proactive defense or
if it fails to shield you from future viruses, then
you are leaving your financial information hugely
vulnerable to online thugs.
As Govind Rammurthy puts it, “We at MicroWorld
believe in pre-emptive strike. Right from our MWL
Technology that cleans objects without writing
them to temporary folders, our solutions believe in
leaving nothing to chance. At the end of the day,
what’s at stake is someone’s life long savings.
You need to live up to that trust for what ever it
takes!”
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