Kaspersky Lab - Virus News: Kaspersky Lab publishes new report: Keyloggers - how they work and how to detect them

Kaspersky Lab - Virus News. Thursday, March 29, 2007
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1. Kaspersky Lab publishes new report: Keyloggers - how they work and how to detect them
2. How to subscribe/unsubscribe
3. Security Rules

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1. Kaspersky Lab publishes new report: Keyloggers - how they work and how to detect them

Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content management
solutions, has published the first part of a new article on keyloggers,
a type of spyware which enables malicious users to harvest passwords and
other confidential data. The first part of the article gives an overview
of how keyloggers function and propagate. It also details the main
techniques used by virus writers to create keyloggers, and how such
programs are increasingly using rootkits to hide within an infected
system.

Examples of the significant losses caused by keyloggers are also
highlighted in the report, together with advice on how users and
organisations can protect themselves from the malware.

The article, written by Nikolay Grebennikov, Deputy Director of the
company's Research and Development team, is available on viruslist.com
and can be accessed at Viruslist.com
(http://www.viruslist.com/en/analysis?pubid=204791931). The second part
of the article will be published in mid-April.

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