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Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Crimeware toolkit targets 10,000 trusted sites

The Finjan Malicious Code Research Center is reporting that a crimeware Trojan named ‘random js toolkit’ is threatening to turn highly trusted websites into lucrative money making traps for the online underworld. It has identified in excess of 10,000 sites in the US which have been infected by the toolkit Trojan in December alone, and the actual figure is likely to be much higher as it is an extremely elusive little bugger which can avoid detection unless some kind of real-time code inspection technology is being used.
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Co-founder of IT Security Thing Ltd, Davey Winder is a three time winner of the Information Security Journalist of the Year award (2006/2008/2010) and received the prestigious Enigma Award for his lifetime contribution to information security journalism in 2011.



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