Trojan Agent-ADO Breaks lose in UK, poses as credit card warning
Email filtering company BlackSpider Technologies reported that businesses in UK came to a stand still on Friday, 22 January when 115,000 e-mails containing a new Trojan were sent to them. Seeing this major anti-virus firms scrambled out an update to counter the Trojan named Agent-ADO. The malware Agent-ADO comes in the attachment to a message that disguises as a warning about a user’s credit card limits been exceeded.
The Trojan was first detected by BlackSpider detected at 0910GMT, 20 January. But it was three and a half hours before the first antivirus vendor used by BlackSpider issued a patch, once again illustrating the shortcomings of conventional ant-virus scanners in fighting fast-paced virus outbreaks.
The infected emails usually carried the subject line “ERROR:YOUR CREDIT CARD OVERDRAFT EXCEED!” and an infected attachment, a packed executable file called FILE1185 which is 5592 bytes big.
Anti virus companies are currently still analyzing the new malware. More details about Trojan Agent-ADO are expected to be released soon.
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