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Fraud network dismantled by PandaLabs
ImageThe declarations of Luis Corrons, the Director of PandaLabs, once the problem was controlled, were: The aim of the creators of the malware is to make money", that is why they concentrate on introducing malware secretly and try to gather personal data and passwords, as in this opportunity, to perpetuate a fraud. The traditional detection technologies, based on signatures, are showing lack of security to make disappear threats”. 


Corrons finally stated that “To avoid the silent epidemic, it is necessary to improve technologies as in the case of TruPreventTM, which is capable of detecting malware by itself without the need of knowing it in advance”.


This network, which works to capture users’ data and access passwords used to make use of the Trojan Briz in it version .I, which was detected in 2.700 PCs in 120 countries. In this way, these infected PCs might have been victim of fraud.

Briz.I is on hundreds of Web sites which download it in the PCs of thousands of users who surf the Web. PandaLabs has teamed up together with other companies of Internet security to close all the pages of this fraud network and to prevent this threat from continuing expanding.  To achieve this, the TruPreventTM technologies are highly recommended.

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