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SecureWorks Find Stolen Data and Trojan Variants

Frank Washkuch Jr. writes on SC Magazine Online:

Researchers at SecureWorks have discovered several caches of stolen data containing the personal and financial information of 10,000 corporate and home PC users, as well as new variants of the Prg trojan.

The caches contain the personal details of US citizens, including bank and credit union, credit card and Social Security numbers, usernames and passwords, according to SecureWorks officials.

Researcher Don Jackson said that hackers are working around encryption standards.

"When data is located, it is always encrypted to keep others from ‘leeching.’ New variants of the trojan have new ways of encrypting that data, making old analysis tools obsolete," said Jackson. "New encryption methods must be reverse-engineered from raw machine code."

posted by Fergie @ 6/27/2007 08:46:00 AM