The number of online games is constantly growing and the amount of money of this market is growing too. It provokes criminals to improve the malicious software which is used to steal player's personal data. In this article Trojan family of Trojan-GameThief.Win32.OnLineGames will be explored. Thousands modifications of this family appear every day.
This large analytical article narrates about rootkits and anti-rootkits. A number of existing tools that combat this class of Trojan programs is compared.
Currently scripts are still relevant. Scripts' functional is different – from exotic type Backdoor (this program provides a remote criminal with the access to the victim machine) to non-malicious Trojan-Clicker (the program which opens a range of Internet sites without the consent of the user). This Trojan is designed to increase site's search engine and statistical ratings or it becomes the first link in the chain. This article narrates about this chain.
Many people remember the fact that the data from more than 100,000 well-known social networks accounts has been compromised. Many, who analyzed the data, wrote later that they were surprised that someone still uses obvious data such as "123456", "qwerty", phone number or date of birth as a password. But this list besides contains passwords like "F4xdi8huoQXK". Was it necessary to invent and remember a complex password if it anyway was stolen? And I began to reflect what password is sufficient for protection the computer. But also it must have no more characters than you can remember.
Online-banking – is a system that allows customers to perform banking activities via the Internet on the bank's website. It is a virtual connection with the bank's website online.
The largest banks have millions of online banking customers. The number of such customers is constantly growing. Now it runs up to several hundreds million people (see article "Defense technology of online banking"). This service has become very popular because it helps to save the time and efforts. Online banking systems are widely used in economically developed countries. The Trojan-Banker and Trojan-Spy are the malicious programs that designed to steal the data from online banking customers. Analyzing the statistics of malicious programs' entry of this type in the "sandbox" I noticed that most Trojans are from Brazil. I decided to find out how difficult to steal confidential customers' data of the Brazil's bank. So I have analyzed the Trojan designed to steal the data from online banking customers of the largest banks in Brazil. This Trojan is detected by Kaspersky Anti-Virus as Trojan-Banker.Win32.Banker.etk.
