Η ESET released a detailed research entitled “Surgery Liberpy: Keyloggers and information theft in latin America".
The #Liberpy constitutes a botnet, based on the protocol HTTP has infected over 2.000 machineusers in Venezuela using keyloggers to steal personal data.
The business started with a malicious campaign Email which included infected attachments archives, who pretended to have package tracking information.
The victims that were infected were not only added to botnet, but turned into potential distribution nodes through the devices USB that they were using.
“We focused on Business Liberty for more than eight months, "he said Diego Perez Magallanes, Researcher Malware of ESET Latinoamerica.
"It is an important day, as beyond analysis and protecting users from a threat like Liberty, we managed to break the business, making it useless.
We wanted to share our findings with this worldwide research so that we could all work together to stop these kinds of threats, wherever they are. "
For more information interested parties can download the report (PDF): “Surgery Liberpy: Keyloggers and information theft in latin America. "
