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SilentBanker Trojan gets stealth mode

by Marianna Schmudlach Oct 7, 2008 2:58PM PDT

New malware gets upgraded

Written by Iain Thomson in San Francisco

vnunet.com, 08 Oct 2008

Security analysts are warning of an improvement in the SilentBanker Trojan that makes it harder to detect and more effective at stealing data.

SilentBanker is a Trojan that specifically targets financial web pages and tries to steal log in details using a keylogger. Although it has been around since last year the new version has a root kit that makes finding infected files very difficult.

More: http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2227693/silentbanker-trojan-gets

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