June 13, 2007

Fraudsters use YouTube to spread Trojan

Being lured into watching a YouTube video could unleash a Trojan Horse which will steal all your information, according to Netimperative.

"Online security firm Websense has discovered a new cimeware technique, called ‘Tubing’, instigated by hackers that attempts to dupe users into viewing a YouTube’s video.

However, what is really happening behind the scenes is that users are actually stumbling on to a YouTube ‘decoy’ where a Trojan horse is then downloaded on to user’s PC.

The payload code is an information stealing Trojan Horse which is designed to grab information from the user’s PC. It then uploads any sensitive information from the user’s PC to an undisclosed remote location".

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