Funcionários da Sunbelt Software, empresa especializada em ferramentas antispyware, descobriram uma rede massiva de roubo de dados pessoais que utiliza um spyware conhecido para roubar dados de vários computadores espalhados pela internet.
A operação foi descoberta durante uma pesquisa realizada pela Sunbelt relacionada com spywares do tipo hijacking.
Officials at Sunbelt Software, a Clearwater, Fla.-based vendor of antispyware tools, said the company stumbled upon a massive ID theft ring that is using a well-known spyware program to break into and systematically steal confidential information from an unknown number of computers worldwide.
The operation was discovered yesterday during research Sunbelt was doing on a spyware program belonging to a particularly dangerous class of browser hijacking tools called CoolWebSearch (CWS), according to Sunbelt's president, Alex Eckelberry.
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