New Delhi: Government’s cyber security arm CERT-In has warned about spreading of a new malware “Bladabindi” which steals user info.
“Some of the Bladabindi variants could capture keyboard, control computer camera and later send collected sensitive information to remote attacker,” warned CERT-In.
Bladabindi could be used as malware downloader to propagate malware and provide backdoor access to the remote attacker. “Bladabindi is infecting Windows OS and spreading via infecting removable USB flash drives and via other malwares,” said CERT-In.
It said that Bladabindi variants can be created using a malicious hacker tool. Attacker can create a malicious file using any choice of icon to mislead or entice a naïve user into running the malicious file.
Some “Bladabindi” variants copy themselves into the root folder of a removable drive and create a shortcut file with the name and folder icon of the drive. When a user clicks on the shortcut, the malware gets executed and Windows Explorer is opened. This makes it seems as if nothing malicious happened.
