Trojan features new cloaking aspect
A Web security firm has discovered the existence of a new Trojan that infects PCs and then grabs stolen data using the Internet Control Message Protocol channel. It hides itself within an Internet Explorer browser object, waits until a user accesses a banking or financial account site and then logs keystrokes. The fact that the malware hides the activity within ICMP pings makes the Trojan activity very hard to detect, say experts, and is another indication of how malware writers are getting smarter and sneakier every day.
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