Malicious keylogger spreads over the Internet

Malicious keylogger programs have become an emerging problem on the Internet and are a good example of online theft. It can be said that thieves stealing intellectual property or user information are those who have poured more oil into the keylogger flame that are booming strongly.

According to a recent report by iDefense, the number of keylogger programs has increased dramatically this year. This is also part of a wave of multi-function malware that incorporates a feature to record all keystroke (keylogger) activities. Moreover, software like this one today has the ability to bypass dangerous virus-software removal tools, making it difficult to detect them.

By the end of this year there will be at least 6,000 malicious keylogger programs distributed. This number has increased by more than 2,000% compared to 5 years ago.

In fact, the keylogger has been around for many years and is also distributed as a completely legal application as a monitoring tool for people like parents who want to monitor their Internet access. my children .

And sometimes security companies have to deal with a lot of commercial software keylogger developers. Most recently, anti-spyware software maker Sunbelt Software was almost sued by his firm RetroCoder for listing its SpyMon keylogger on Sunbelt's list of dangerous software. SpyMon's final user terms prohibit any anti-virus and anti-spyware software development companies from using or analyzing keylogger software from RetroCoder.

Meanwhile security companies have developed signatures that help prevent malicious software keyloggers before such software installs on users' computers. But there are still new programs with special symbols taken from websites that allow downloading dangerous scripts. In some cases, these dangerous scripts are also sold so that others can create many different dangerous software variants.

Keylogger is especially popular in countries where online banking fraud is a big problem like in Brazil. Keylogger is even more integrated with some Trojans such as Banker or PWSteal - the trojans are programmed to help distribute keyloggers through users clicking on a web link. .

In general, keyloggers have almost become a problem on the Internet today