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Cyberthreats March: "disembodied" boat and the first banking Trojan for Android

"Kaspersky Lab" conducted an analysis of cyber threats, in March 2012. Last month, the company's experts have discovered a unique attack, during which the attackers used a malicious program that can function without creating files on the infected computer - "disembodied" bot. The study found that visitors were infected sites of some Russian online media using on their pages teasers online, organized by technology AdFox. The scheme of the attack was aimed at stealing confidential data users to access online banking systems in several major Russian banks. segment of mobile threats added in March radically new banking Trojan for OS Android, experts say "Kaspersky Lab". Earlier, there were Trojans designed to steal mobile transaction authentication codes (mTAN), which are sent to the phone bank client in the SMS-messages. In the middle of the month was discovered malware, which aims not only to steal SMS, containing the codes mTAN, but just to steal the data itself (username / password) for user authentication system for online banking. Experts believe that the creation of new malware, virus writers are involved in Russian-speaking.

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