New Trojan Threat Emerges

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<h1>New Trojan Threat Emerges

By Ross O. Storey, MIS-Asia

Internet security specialist BitDefender has warned about the dangers of a new spying Trojan it describes as "a serious enemy" that can be used as a corporate spying tool.

In a statement, BitDefender says that Trojan.Spy.YEK sniffs for critical data and archives that may hold private information and sends them back to the attacker. BitDefender Malware Researchers Doina Cosovan and Octavian Minea say that because Trojan.Spy.YEK has both spying and backdoor features, it is a serious enemy.

"A spying malware in the local network of a company means danger and unfortunately the number of such threats is constantly increasing," the researchers said. "With an encrypted dll in its overlay, this Trojan is easily saved in indows\system32\netconf32.dll and once injected in explorer.exe nothing can stop it from connecting (whenever necessary) to a couple of meeting spots with the attacker," the researchers said.

Backdoor Spyware

"The backdoor component helps it register itself as a service so as to receive and follow instructions from a command and control center, while the spyware component sends away data about files, operating system, while also making screenshots of the ongoing processes."

Details here: http://www.pcworld.com/article/210499/new_trojan_threat_emerges.html