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Troj/Bancos-BBW

Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
  • Monitors browser activity
Protection available since 27 April 2007 09:26:34 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

Troj/Bancos-BBW is a internet banking Trojan for the Windows platform.

Troj/Bancos-BBW targets the cutomers of particular Brazilian Banks, When certain banking websites are accessed, Troj/Bancos-BBW will monitor user activity and sends the stolen details to specified email addresses.

When first run Troj/Bancos-BBW copies itself into the Windows system folder under the name disk10.exe.

The following registry entry is created to run Troj/Bancos-BBW on startup:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
taskmsgs
<path of Trojan executable>

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