Aware of Trojans While Online Banking
Online banking users in India have been alerted by cybersecurity experts that a new 'worm' virus is out there to perform its infectious and destructive activities. The virus, which is a variant of deadly Trojan, has been named Cridex and it's said to be capable of attacking e-banking users and steal their personal log-in data.
Cridex Trojan is said to be more notorious as it can assume six aliases to perpetrate its activities. In its latest advisory, Computer Emergency Response Team of India (Cert-In) has alerted e-banking users saying, the variants of Cridex malware are expanding swiftly. This Trojan is mainly aimed at information stealing from e-bankers via removable drives. Not only online banking, but social media users are also is the hit-list of this malware.
Cert-In is the nodal agency in India which looks after how to fight against all kinds of hacking and phishing incidents, as well as building strong security defence of the Indian Internet domain. The virus opens a backdoor and downloads a number of malicious files, after it gets access to a user's personal Internet working stream. In its alert the agency has also added that like other banking Trojans, Cridex also performs web injects into the HTML pages of the banks. Then the user is redirected to false banking sites where the user information can be easily stolen. The Trojan helps hackers connect to the bank site from the victim's IP address by bypassing IP reputation blocking.
Some of the aliases of this malware which have been identified are 'Geodo', 'Dapato', 'W32/Kryptik.BVB', 'Worm.Win32.Cridex', 'PWS:Win32/Zbot' and 'Trojan.Gen.2'. After it gets activated, the virus steals log-in data of banking sites and social networking platforms like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Users have also been advised with some counter-measures by the agency. The agency has advised users to enable firewall at desktop and gateway level, keep the updated patches in the system as well as up-to-date fixes in operating system, application software and antivirus at entry points.
Users have been urged to update and install all the latest upgrades and software so that the computers are protected from viruses and Trojans. They are asked to use stronger passwords and to be extra cautious while opening email attachments.
Cridex Trojan is said to be more notorious as it can assume six aliases to perpetrate its activities. In its latest advisory, Computer Emergency Response Team of India (Cert-In) has alerted e-banking users saying, the variants of Cridex malware are expanding swiftly. This Trojan is mainly aimed at information stealing from e-bankers via removable drives. Not only online banking, but social media users are also is the hit-list of this malware.
Cert-In is the nodal agency in India which looks after how to fight against all kinds of hacking and phishing incidents, as well as building strong security defence of the Indian Internet domain. The virus opens a backdoor and downloads a number of malicious files, after it gets access to a user's personal Internet working stream. In its alert the agency has also added that like other banking Trojans, Cridex also performs web injects into the HTML pages of the banks. Then the user is redirected to false banking sites where the user information can be easily stolen. The Trojan helps hackers connect to the bank site from the victim's IP address by bypassing IP reputation blocking.
Some of the aliases of this malware which have been identified are 'Geodo', 'Dapato', 'W32/Kryptik.BVB', 'Worm.Win32.Cridex', 'PWS:Win32/Zbot' and 'Trojan.Gen.2'. After it gets activated, the virus steals log-in data of banking sites and social networking platforms like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Users have also been advised with some counter-measures by the agency. The agency has advised users to enable firewall at desktop and gateway level, keep the updated patches in the system as well as up-to-date fixes in operating system, application software and antivirus at entry points.
Users have been urged to update and install all the latest upgrades and software so that the computers are protected from viruses and Trojans. They are asked to use stronger passwords and to be extra cautious while opening email attachments.
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