Kapersky Lab Warns of Sinowal Trojan

Kapersky Lab has warned of the Sinowal Trojan. The Trojan installs itself on a user’s computer and steals usernames and passwords of European banks’ websites.

Kapersky Lab has warned of the Sinowal Trojan. The Trojan installs itself on a user’s computer and steals usernames and passwords of European banks’ websites.

The Trojan uses a German-language pitch and has some Russian in its malware code.

The spam messages containing the Trojan have a ‘.de’ email address. The email claims to be from MS Windows Update.

The Trojan affects computers that do not have a properly patched browser.

The message in the email claims that a new worm was detected and that the recipient of the email should run the attached file to protect their computer.

Even when a user starts an SSL transaction with the bank, the Trojan inserts an HTML code causing a pop-up window. The pop-up window then asks for the username and password.

The stolen information is directly sent to the hacker’s server.

LINKS:

For more information on the Sinowal Trojan, click here.

For more information on the company, visit Kapersky Lab.