Microsoft introduces detection for Bafruz trojan
Microsoft has added detection capabilities for Bafruz, a backdoor trojan capable of taking a number of malicious actions on victims' computers.
Bafruz can take control of accounts on social networking sites like Facebook and [Russian-based] Vkontakte, launch distributed denial-of-service attacks, conduct Bitcoin mining, install additional malware, and disable security products, like anti-virus, said the Tuesday blog post from the Microsoft Malware Protection Center.
Bafruz resembles traditional rogue anti-virus software as it tries to get on users' machines, minus the portion where it demands ransoms from users. The malware first displays a list of security processes being terminated. Then, alerts appear in the system tray instructing the victim to remove a "virus" by rebooting their computer. Once the victim does this, the computer will restart in safe mode, allowing Bafruz to disable installed anti-virus software.
