A dangerous new rootkit based Trojan has been discovered in the wild.  It has been named Rootkit.hearse.  IT reports computer user information to a web server in Russia, including passwords and login user names and passwords to secure sites such as online banking.  And being a rootkit based Trojan it is hidden from the user.  Well almost, anyway.  For more information, please refer to the following site, (a blog for Sana Security):

http://www.nthworld.org/archives/2006/03/on_march_20th_w_1.htm

Most antivirus programs can now stop this threat, but only if they have been updated in the last day or two.

Posted on Wednesday, March 22nd, 2006 at 10:38 PM and filed under All Posts, Malware, Online Security, Root kits. You can follow any responses to this post through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a comment, or you may trackback from your own site.