Cyber security investigators alerted e-banking users in the country against the infectious and destructive activity of a “worm” virus. This virus attacks and steals personal login secrets and passwords of an individual.
The virus, of the deadly Trojan variant, has been identified and named as ‘Cridex’ and is considered notorious as it can assume as many as six identities to perpetrate its activities.
“It has been observed that the new variants of Cridex malware are spreading widely. Cridex is an information stealing e-banking Trojan that propagates via removable drives and targets users of online banking/social media for stealing user name, passwords among others,” the Computer Emergency Response Team of India (CERT-In) said in its latest advisory to e-banking users in the country.
