Trojan steals passwords storage of Firefox and Co.
According to Trend Micro on warez sites and circulating in the BitTorrent network currently the Trojans PASSTEAL which reads the entire memory of the browser password and transmits information to cyber crooks. The pest should be hidden in pirated versions of programs and ebooks.
When reading the access it makes up PASSTEAL easy: According to the report, the Trojan abused this including the free Windows tool web browser PassView, which is actually completely harmless as long as you are only using the money to save their own access from the browser. The program supports all popular browsers. Who wants to know what there is to get on your own computer can quickly verify that the tool.
By in Firefox and Opera is a master password, you make it a little heavier attackers to read the data stored in the browser access, Google Chrome and IE do not offer this option. The master password provides protection against PASSTEAL, but not in front of an attacker with another malware first the encrypted password database, and then with a keylogger also picks up the corresponding master password. The same applies when using standalone password manager like KeePass.
Since it is the malware that infects the computer choose not to, you should therefore think twice before you ever access data stored on the computer. A trojan-safe alternative is a list, which you kept in your wallet or in a safe.
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