Protect yourself against ‘Koobface worm’, ‘Clampi’, ‘URLzone’ and the ‘Zeus’ Trojans that get installed in your computer stealing your login ids and passwords. These Trojans continue to outwit network security experts around the world.
They aim at social networking website and online banking users and transfer login ids and passwords to cyber criminals. ‘Koobface’, between August 2008 and December last year, has infected 3.1 million computers and continues to remain undetected by normal users.
This Trojan kicks off the process by posing as email alerts from a Facebook friend that sends messages to all Facebook user friends asking them to wire money as you are trapped in a foreign country.
The Zeus Trojan infects computers via email phishing attacks or by ‘drive-by downloads’. Along with Clampi, it steals online account credentials with a focus on bank accounts.
Zeus is estimated to have infected 3.6 million computers as of October 2009. Zeus malware sneakily sits in the computer and records logging in accounts and passes it on to the scamster.
Another banking Trojan URLZone, which can not be detected by normal users is an rising threat. When the criminal using the Trojan makes a transfer from a victim’s bank account, the Trojan can alter the online bank statement to camouflage the fact that an illegal transfer has occurred. Victims who check their bank accounts online, instead of reading paper statements, will not recognize their money has been stolen.
