12:26 Trojan winlock began to spread through LJ | |
Developers Trojan Winlock continue to invent new schemes for distribution of their offspring. It seems that the developers are making coin this software will be a very long time, despite an ongoing fight with the Trojans. So far, the Trojans win, not least thanks to the ingenuity of its creators. So, now, according to experts from Doctor Web, invented a new way to spread infection, blocking OS Windows - comments on LJ. By clicking on the comment, the user gets on the photo hosting, and from there redirected to another resource, with a "strawberry", where instead of girls, the user gets a Trojan in the form of exe-file. It is clear that the primary target audience of Winlock, propagating through LJ - Russian-speaking users, whom are the majority. This is one of the first attempts by hackers to start spreading the trojan Winlock through social networks, since there are still malware spread through various recreational resources, such as sites with the same "strawberry" or fake file sharing. Example comment, as described above. Of course, the attack on the virus writers are going to overlap scheme, previously used by hackers to withdraw funds, are found members of the hacker group, but still it is alive and well. Invent new ways to spread the Trojan, the new financial schemes, which are tested at once. Probably, the scheme spread through Trojan Learn to live long, but to disseminate information about it, many PC users will have time to become infected. About the most the Trojans to write makes no sense, because more than once or twice, this topic was discussed at Habre, demonstrating various ways to bypass the lock. In general, users of LJ should be careful not to click on all sorts of nice pictures in the comments. All as always - the most vulnerable category of users are users whose curiosity overcomes caution. Well, for it has to pay, and in the truest sense of the word. Via drweb.com | |
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