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July 24, 2008New trojan guaranteed to evade detection?Ars Technica is reporting that there is a new Trojan that's guaranteed to evade anti-viruses and filters. The trojan is allegedly being sold for $1,300 online and supposedly carries a guarantee that it can evade detection by creating variants at a rate faster than the security companies can release definitions that can detect the malware.  served by picapp.com The new trojan itself is known as Limbo 2, and has been designed for both customization and variation. Prevx, the company that first detected it, reports that hackers are selling custom-designed variations of the Trojan to customers anxious to avoid detection. If a variant of Limbo 2 is detected, the Trojan can be shifted to a new, undetected approach. The payload itself remains unchanged throughout this process.
The actual infection at the heart of Limbo 2 is also a bit fancier than your average keylogger. Not only will it save and transmit any data you enter as part of a normal logon process, the Trojan will also display spoofed information boxes when users touch on a login page the Trojan finds interesting. The exact data Limbo 2 requests can vary, but includes credit card numbers, e-mail addresses, and additional login details. Any personal information found on the hard drive will also be packed up and shipped back to Botnet Central. While the claims are out there, they're still plausible. It's hard to tell if they pulled it all off though and I have my doubts about it. Besides, is a guarantee from a malware author really worth anything? [Malware bad guys tout new trojan guaranteed to evade filters]
Posted in Tech News
by #!/usr/bin/geek at 2008-07-24 00:20 Eastern
Tags: botnet irc computersecurity coporatesecurity datasecurity hacker hackers hacking
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