Trojan detected with the function of messaging

Trojan detected with the function of messaging. Built in the virus allows the hacker to chat to communicate with the victim.

AVG has reported the detection of Trojan with built-in chat. With the help of a virus that turned out to be malware-class Trojan horse BackDoor.Generic, an attacker can communicate with the owner of the infected computer.

According to experts, the malware is a common backdoor. At first glance there was nothing remarkable, but the study was conducted because the virus was suspected in the kidnapping of the credentials of players Diablo III.


However, during the standard checks on the computer screen of researchers reports began to appear in Chinese. The creator of the virus was asking what purpose the experts check out his "brainchild."

It turned out that a malicious program has built-in chat, which allows an attacker to send messages to the infected computer. As a result of further communication with the creator of the malware found out that he also sees the contents of the display of the victim, can track the movement of the cursor and get the image with a web-camera victim. In conclusion, the hacker has demonstrated yet another opportunity to remotely shut down the virus and computer scientists.

Note that the analysis of the malware experts have established that she was not able to steal the credentials of players Diablo III, but it can record user names and passwords of users who connect via dial-up. Read more