PCworld.com site reported that a new malicious software specifically targeting poker players is currently sold on a site of computer hacking. This software is specifically designed to steal login information on online poker rooms. The software in question is I2Ninja.
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To return to the malware, it relies on extremely complex cryptographic mechanisms and uses network I2P (Invisible Internet Project). These two features on the one hand allow him to be very difficult to detect, and secondly, to ensure the anonymity of its users. But above all, the i2Ninja target in the first place the poker players of line through its PokerGrabber module, which is designed specifically to steal IDs.
It is specialized Sitemap Trusteer, which was the first dealt with this new threat, after the sale of the software on the Internet.
Therefore, it is a simple announcement, but the occasion is good to remind you to remain vigilant when you have money online (on poker sites, on Paypal, Moneybookers, etc). There is no point of paranoier, but vigilance is required at all times.
The first mention of this software was made on a Russian site. Very shortly after the publication, the site withdrew the article. Here is the translation (in french) of the article in question:
"According to a post on the Russian forum of cybercrime, i2Ninja offers similar functionality to those major existing financial malware: HTML injection and recovery of information returned in the forms of the major browsers (Internet Explorer, Firefox and Chrome), the recovery of the information transmitted by FTP and should soon have a VNC (Virtual Network Connection) module." In addition, this malware also provides PokerGrabber, a module specifically aimed at the major poker sites online and software to hack boxes e-mail."
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