Sophos’s worldwide network of virus, spyware and spam analysis centers, have cautioned internet users to tighten their belts against the following discovery of a spyware Trojan horse, which puts on view pictures of a potential Russian love match while secretly committing theft of confidential information.
The Troj/Keylog-HD Trojan horse, when first run on a user’s computer, displays a slideshow of three picture of a young woman called ‘Victoria Stasova‘. The three photographs are also included with a love heart and AOL email address. However, despite the fact that the pictures are being displayed, the spyware Trojan horse also commit theft of keystrokes and confidential information from the infected user’s computer as a result letting hackers plunder bank accounts and steal identity theft.
As revealed by Sophos’s senior technology consultant, Graham Cluley,
The danger is that people might think they are just looking at pictures of a Russian beauty who is on the lookout for love. But behind the scenes, information and keypresses - including usernames and passwords - are being secretly stolen from the PCs by hackers,
One of the ways in which malware like this could work is that computer users could find themselves being chatted up online by someone who they believe is a potential lovematch, and then be sent the slideshow as the virtual romance blossoms.
Having found new love victims may rush to run the slideshow with their head in the clouds, and not realize their finances are being consigned to the gutter.
The Sophos reported that the malware (the Troj/Keylog-HD Trojan horse) is not widely rampant, even though the company recommended that users have to be very alert while
choosing program to run on their PCs and that business protect their desktop and servers with automatically updated guard against viruses, spyware and spam to decrease the chances of pernicious attack.
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