New Russian Trojan Poses Online Threat

ATLANTA – Investigators have discovered new, previously undetected variants of Prg Trojan, which is apparently being unleashed by Russian hackers. The virus has already stolen caches of data containing account records for an estimated 8,000 corporate and home computer users, according to SecureWorks, the online data security provider. The data contains credit union and bank account numbers, credit card account information, Social Security numbers, online payment accounts, and user name and passwords. One of the things that make the newly discovered Trojan such a threat is its ability to hide itself from anti-virus software, SecureWorks said. The hackers behind the Trojan have apparently developed staging areas on servers, where new variants of the Prg Trojan are waiting to be released once the anti-virus software begins to detect the last variant of the Trojan’s executable code.