Haxdoor Trojan claims thousands of UK victims
Metropolitan Police have revealed that the Trojan responsible for infecting thousands of users is Haxdoor, a particularly 'nasty' piece of malware. The FBI is working with the Met to catch the offenders. The Metropolitan Police have revealed that cybercriminals used a particularly malicious piece of malware called the Haxdoor Trojan to steal data from thousands of UK users.
Over 2,300 people have been infected with a variant of Haxdoor, which installs a backdoor, keylogger and rootkit on infected machines, to harvest private information undetected.
As first reported on ZDNet UK on Tuesday, this personal information has been found on a server in the US. The Met said on Wednesday that it is involved in a joint operation with the FBI.
"It's a diverse range of data that's been stolen," said detective chief inspector Charlie McMurdie, the officer in charge of the investigation. "Primarily passwords and details of financial transactions, but not purely banking data."
