The World Cup Football fever is on! Not just for millions
of soccer fans across the globe, but also for malware
writers. Security experts from MicroWorld
Technologies inform that a new email in circulation
carries a Trojan named 'Backdoor.Win32.Haxdoor.in',
while offering potential victims a dynamic Schedule
of the mega sporting event.
Written in German, the mail talks a few things about
the match plan and hotel bookings to make it look
believable. Then it tells you to click on a link to
download the schedule carrying the Trojan. Once inside
the computer, Haxdoor.in moves to lower the security
level of the Windows, turns off AntiVirus software,
steals information via keyloggers and opens a backdoor
to connect through IRC channels.
"We had detected another variant of Haxdoor Trojan
in April," says Aneesh Paliwal, Security Analyst,
MicroWorld Technologies. "Named as 'Haxdoor.ie',
it was found to be used by botmasters to turn user
computers into Bots and Zombies that eventually create
large botnets out of a cluster of infected machines."
In code and modus operandi, Haxdoor.in is almost identical
to its earlier variants except for the fact that this
version comes with its own email engine.
Bots are computers taken over by hackers using Backdoors
and Trojans. Such compromised computers are employed
in a plethora of illegal activities like Denial-of-Service
attacks, hijacking of SMTP Mail Servers to spread
Spam and wrongfully increasing the hit count of specific
websites. At some point, the hacker takes over almost
every activity on an infected PC.
"There are number of legitimate websites offering
many such schedules and fixtures of World Cup Soccer
and other sporting events alike. Hence, you just can't
blame someone for being lured by such a tempting mail,
more so if the recipient is a football aficionado,"
says Govind Rammurthy CEO, MicroWorld
Technologies.
"Your first line of defense in these circumstances
should be a cautious approach towards unsolicited
mails, even when they offer you moon. But in a world
of Worms and Trojans capable of stealing your friend's
address book, malware that can exploit browser vulnerabilities
and viruses spreading via Scripts and ActiveX Controls,
such a defense may just not be enough. For total security,
one needs an intelligent,
Real-Time protection that consistently safeguards
computers against every possible malice in the World
Wide Web," affirms Govind Rammurthy.
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