Monday, October 3, 2016

What is Spy.POSCardStealer?

Brief description about Spy.POSCardStealer:
This Spy.POSCardStealer is categorized as trojan threats specially programmed to take over credit card details. Intension behind the attack on online user is to collect your sensitive information like credit/debit card number, password, bank account details to misuse it and will expose it to cyber crime world to make profit from your data.

Spy.POSCardStealer trojan is behave like a proxy which means that it will collect your confidential information and use it like you for example proxy signature means hide it's identity. Trojan uses the DoS security attack methodology by which it will communicate to shared computer network and collect online user browsing history like login details, password. By the help of your login details, it will send spam mail attachment to your contact list to distribute this harmful threats. This type of trojan is very difficult to detect because it has ability to integrating into the operating system. After successful infiltration, it will execute each time whenever you open your computer. Spy.POSCardStealer trojan will delete your system files, modify it by adding malicious code to it. It has capability to monitor your system activities because once it come in contact to your system it will open path for remote hackers. It will download and install more dangerous threats into your system.

How Spy.POSCardStealer trojan will infiltrate into your computer?
The Spy.POSCardStealer trojan will infiltrate into your computer by taking the help of lots of way which are given below:

Opening spam mail attachment from unauthorized sites. Therefore before open these mail check the sender authority.

By downloading free software from non-official websites. Whenever you download and install any free software in your system the check all the EULA (end user license agreement) condition and select advance installation mode to knew the what this free software is actually containing? Because these free software will contain additional application which will damage your system later.

By visiting malicious webpages, clicking on insecure domain, links, ads, extra. Peer-to-peer file sharing. Usages of infected hard drives and USB flash devices.

Visible symptoms of Spy.POSCardStealer:
This Spy.POSCardStealer will modify your windows registry, DNS (Domain name service) settings, executable file of your system by adding malicious code to it.
It will cause to slow down of your system performance as it will install additional program in your system which will consume huge amount of CPU resource.
It will alter browser settings, default homepage settings, search engine settings by injecting insecure code it's source code.

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