Experts at SophosLabs™, Sophos's global
network of virus, spyware and spam analysis centers, have
successfully defended customers against a piece of malware which
spread via an online poker website.
The Trojan horse, known as RBCalc, was distributed on a website
offering articles and tools for online poker players, installing a
rootkit and other malicious components onto infected computers.
Sophos has proactively detected the rootkit as Troj/RKProc-Fam since
last year, and other components as the Troj/Keylog-GO Trojan
horse.
Poker players who ran the software were being
silently infected by malicious code.
Once installed the malicious software attempted to steal
usernames and passwords from visitors to online gambling
websites.
"Sophos users have no need to worry about this malware because
they have been protected since last year," said Graham Cluley, senior
technology consultant for Sophos. "But the news of this malware
does send out a clear message to online gamblers that - just like
online bankers - they need to take care over their computer's
security."
Sophos recommends companies protect their email gateways,
desktops and servers with an automatically updated consolidated solution to defend against the
threats of viruses, spyware and spam.
More than 100 million users in 150 countries rely on Sophos as the best protection against complex threats and data loss. Sophos is committed to providing security and data protection solutions that are simple to manage, deploy and use and that deliver the industry's lowest total cost of ownership. Sophos offers award-winning encryption, endpoint security, web, email, and network access control solutions backed by SophosLabs - a global network of threat intelligence centers. With more than two decades of experience, Sophos is regarded as a leader in security and data protection by top analyst firms and has received many industry awards.
Sophos is headquartered in Boston, US and Oxford, UK. More information is available at www.sophos.com.