Please beware towards a new ‘guerrilla attack’ virus named Asprox. This virus has spread to approximately two millions computers in the world. Mentioned that cracker from East Europe has infected this virus to more than 1000 sites in England.
This virus also haunts at the local government offices in England and National Health Service (NHS) which is used everyday by thousands of people to access local services. Approximately twelve sites local council including Hackney Council in London is also a target, thus endanger people who log on to pay tax.
Experts said that this virus isn’t like other common virus which spread through e-mail or illegal sites. Asprox quietly hide in the mainstream site, then later infects people’s computer who visit that site. Once attacking, this virus can be used by the user to access important information and to steal files, emails and passwords.
So far, according to the security experts, this virus has attacked approximately two million computers all over the world. Generally the computer attacked is not protected with up to date anti virus software. This virus attack has no suspicious signs. Cracker who invented this virus is aiming for the victim personal data to steal money from the victim’s account.
“This is a serious attack. Last year when your computer is attacked by a virus, You can easily discover it, but now you cannot see any signs that your computer is being infected by this virus,” said Yuval Ben-Itzhak, chief technical officer from Finjan, the first security company who exposed the thread from Asprox.
July 25th, 2008 |