Online security firm
ESET has warned
of a new Trojan targeting online gamers in Asia.
Win32/PSW.Agent.NDP accounted for 5.73 per cent of the detections made by
ESET's
ThreatSense.Net
tool, which reports detection statistics from millions of client computers
around the world.
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The program steals information from several sources, before sending the data
back to a remote attacker.
"Agent.NDP is an interesting threat as it does not exploit any security
vulnerability and does not contain its own mailing engine," said Pierre Marc
Bureau, a researcher at ESET.
"Trojans are commonly used to perform identity theft and other malicious
actions. Agent.NDP seems to target Chinese online gamers in an attempt to steal
information such as usernames and passwords."
ESET explained that the Trojan is probably installed after being downloaded
from a website, almost certainly under the guise of another application.
Agent.NDP then copies itself into the victim's temporary folder and writes a
DLL in the same folder. It then injects the DLL code into explorer.exe to
monitor system execution and find vulnerable information.
ESET's second highest ranking threat for October was INF/Autorun, accounting
for 3.45 per cent of all detections.
INF/Autorun describes a variety of malware that uses the autorun.inf file
which contains information to run programs automatically when removable media
are inserted into a computer.
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