Romanian Cyber Security and Anti Virus Company BitDefender has found a banking malware. Researchers named it Terdot, which was first found in 2016. Actually it is a banking trojan and man in the middle attacks to steal the login password. Not only do the log-in passwords get stolen, but information related to banking such as credit card information and internet banking passwords can also be blown.
Approximately 7 years ago i.e., 2011 is based on the popular Trojan Zeus. Therefore, this Trojan's Behavior also resembles Zeus.
How terdot works
Security firm BitDefender says that this malware has targeted Canadian banks. The security firm also says that it steals the username and password registered by the user from other websites such as Gmail, facebook, yahoo and live.com's website.
Like the Zeus Trojan, it also attacks the browser and injects itself into the browsing process. The difficulty is that this malware called Terdot is run by downloading itself and it can come in any file type. To avoid detection, it can come from any such attachments.
Researchers have said, 'Tredot is a complicated malware and which is leading Zeus's legacy forward. Its focus is to achieve the credentials of social networking and email service, which it does secretly and it is difficult to detect it.
About this banking malware, the company has also released a special guideline and there are all the information related to the PDF file from which you can know the ways to avoid them.