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Finjan Inc. says its Malicious Code Research Center (MCRC) has identified yet another significant new Web attack — the latest in a genre of crimeware that threatens to turn highly trusted Websites into insidious traps for unwary visitors. The attack, which Finjan designated as “random js toolkit”, is an extremely elusive crimeware Trojan that infects an end user’s machine and sends data from the machine via the Internet to the Trojan’s “master” (read: cyber-criminal).
More than 10,000 Websites in the U.S. were infected in December by this latest malware, the company said. Data stolen by the Trojan can include documents, passwords, surfing habitats, or any other sensitive information of interest to the criminal.
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