Antispyware firm warns of massive ID theft ring

charlesvar · 2005/08/08

After stumbling on the ring, Sunbelt Software called in the FBI

The operation was discovered yesterday during research Sunbelt was doing on a spyware program belonging to a particularly dangerous class of browser hijacking tools called CoolWebSearch (CWS), according to Sunbelt's president, Alex Eckelberry.
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http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,103737,00.html?source=x73

More: http://netrn.net/spywareblog/

Regards - Charles

markp62 · 2005/08/09

Thanks for posting this, I had come across this and was meaning to post it. I noticed they won't say exactly how they "stumbled" into the server. ha ha

charlesvar · 2005/08/14

An update on this:

Sunbelt Adds Detection for ID Theft Keylogger

Anti-spyware vendor Sunbelt plans to release a free tool to zap a sophisticated keystroke logger being used by an organized ring of identity thieves.

The spyware keylogger, named Srv.SSA-KeyLogger, was being used to hijack confidential data from millions of infected computers and send the information back to a remote server controlled by an identity theft ring.
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1847427,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594

Regards - Charles

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