New Phishing Trojan!
Identity TheftA new Trojan can change IP addresses! IP Addresses are how your web browser finds the web sites you want to view, it is a translation of the human readable domain name (say www.chase.com) to a numeric, computer readable address (like 159.53.64.105). This new trojan can change this IP address before your request leaves your computer! It can also go grab the site you wanted and redirect you to an impostor site…very scarey stuff! What does this mean? In layman’s terms it can control the websites you visit regardless of what sites you try to visit. For example let’s say you type in the URL www.chase.com so you can manage your account. A trojan that can change the IP address can now send you to www.fakechase.com instead!
The more technical description is, this new Trojan is on the loose and is enabling attackers to reroute users to phony Websites even when the user types the URL out manually. The Trojan, dubbed DNSChanger.eg, corrupts the process of translating a domain name into an IP address, according to security researchers at security software vendor MicroWorld Technologies, which discovered the vulnerability. The exploit has “high risk potential,” the researchers say. When a user types in a URL, the smart Trojan changes the “NameServer” registry key value to a fraudulent IP address. Phishers can design the fraudulent page to look very much like the pages of the site they are defrauding businesses such as a bank or retailer and fool the user into typing in their account information. “Phishing usually requires you to be lured through emails that lead you to impostor Websites, but this requires nothing of that sort”. Unfortunately we don’t have any information on how this trojan is spread or how you protect against it.
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