Security researchers from Websense found the banking Trojan Cidrex in a fresh variant, which in addition to contaminating PCs for ripping sensitive information off end-users, managed in opening e-mail accounts in Yahoo utilizing CAPTCHA tests for ensuring that the accounts were secured.
Essentially, like Zeus in terms of operation, Cidrex represents a Trojan family that steals data. It targets Web-sessions, records their content and changes the same, in order to dig out details from the affected end-user.
The most recent Cidrex sample is spread through scam e-mails which contain condensed URLs linked up with the Blackhole attack toolkit. Successful attack results in the downloading and execution of the Cidrex onto a system.
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