The article identifies the site www.acn.cu as the cause of the virus, who asks permission through a pop-up to offer users the option to control their computer clipboard data.
A company cybersecurity Guyana and a company producing anti-virus, after analyzing for weeks the digital site of the state Cuban News Agency (ACN), determined that since there is intended to steal information from computers of visitors.
The information appears in the portal Caribbean News Now! and it is entitled "Thousands of possibly infected computers after visiting Cuba government digital site".
The article identifies the site www.acn.cu as the cause of the virus, who asks permission through a pop-up to offer users the option to control their computer clipboard data. The ideal option would be to deny permission, says the publication; but members of the team of analysts who examined the infection told the Caribbean publication that "the virus can still be transmitted to a computer, even in cases where a user clicks the option" Disallow. "There is a possibility, analysts said, that the "developer of the virus seems to have placed a reverse coding action on that option to settle."
Maneuver three to steal information
The virus creates a "backdoor" into computers in order to allow the captured information is sent to a remote server, in the same way that traffic flows on the Internet. Thus copy the entries made by the user, including passwords, typed messages and other data, and sends them to a new to a server, where the information can be accessed and processed by an unknown third party.
The note says that "research, which was led by security analyst software, born in Guyana, Dennis Adonis, who is also the developer of antivirus lead and owner of Computer Care - Guyana, it was found that the infection may have been or planted by other foreign government or group as part of a strategy of cyber warfare or the experts themselves of Cuban cyber intelligence. "
Note also says that whoever has infected the website seems to have the ability to turn on and off infection, "ironically, by ignorance site owner, who happens to be the government of Cuba." Highlights the article also that "the website usually attracts thousands of visitors every day, a percentage of whose browsers can fall into the category of vulnerability" and the exact number of computers "that can actually be infected as a result of unknown visit the website".
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