Critical password stealing banking Trojan discovered

Critical password stealing banking Trojan discovered

The banking Trojan is believed to be based on the famous Trojan Zeus. The discovered Trojan has been termed as Terdot by the researchers. This Trojan has the ability to use visited web pages data with HTML code to carry out MitM (man-in-the-middle) attacks and steal confidential data including credit card information.

It has the ability to automatically update and change its name and also add new capabilities to trick antivirus software. Moreover, it can steal password and credential information from Yahoo, Facebook, Gmail and Twitter accounts with quite ingenuity.


This Trojan is also being spread in malicious links and authentic looking PDF files.