BBB Trojan nabs more than 1,400 victims
An e-mail attack that dresses itself up as a complaint filed with the Better Business Bureau has infected the computers of more than 1,400 executives, according to an analysis published by a security firm on Friday.
As reported previously by SecurityFocus, the phishing attack uses details apparently culled from public sources to tailor the e-mail message with a company’s name, the name of a senior executive and the executive’s e-mail address in an attempt to convince the person to open an attachment. There appears to be two variants of the Trojan horse program, one that uses a browser helper object to collect all information that passes through the victim’s browser and another that uses a more traditional keylogger, according to an analysis written by SecureWorks’ security researcher Joe Stewart.
