On the Web, new viruses are spread that can threaten national security
By Prempal Singh
After the virus attack Petya.A, which a month ago actually paralyzed the whole country – only 10 percent of companies revised the policy of digital security. Such data was released by experts of the cyber policy of Ukraine. But in addition to scandalous and sensational threats, a number of other, no less threatening pests are spreading through the network.
Although not a new, but very fast-paced virus program. Half a million computers have already become its victim. And getting rid of the infection is not so simple.
“If any of the processes or services are deleted from the system, the second service will notice and install them.All information, configuration files are encrypted, which allows attackers to be inside the system and not be detected,” – says the head of technical support Antivirus company Alexander Ilyusha.
This botnet specializes in abduction of accounts. Which then hackers successfully resell. It is distributed mainly through torrent networks. When the operating system is infected, It installs two absolutely legal extensions into the browser: The Safe Surfing and Teddy Protection. Then it changes their configuration and makes them work for themselves. Stolen data can give hackers access to bank accounts and internal servers.