Kronos

Kronos is a new dangerous Trojan horse advertised on several Russian underground forums and available for $7,000 USD. The removal of the Kronos Trojan horse is a must because this Trojan steals banking credentials by using the Man-in-the-Browser (MitB) technique, which enables the attackers to capture sensitive information. Kronos can steal information when the victim is using Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, and Mozilla Firefox.

The Trojan arrives at the computer with a Ring3 rootkit, which helps defend the Trojan against other Trojan horses. After the installation of the rootkit, the processes, registry entries, and files of the Trojan cannot be seen.

Kronos is known to be compatible with another infamous Trojan Zeus. It means that HTML injection files used by the Zeus Trojan can be easily used alongside Kronos.

According the creators of the new threat, the Trojan can bypass antivirus detection and sandbox environments. Malware researchers claim that the ability to bypass sandboxes is a very broad claim because they have different ways to terminate evasive malware programs.

Additionally, the advertisement of the Kronos Trojan claims that the owne of the program will receive bug fixes and support, which is believed to be the most attractive feature of Kronos.

Kronos is difficult to detect because it uses encrypted command-and-control (C&C) communication, which means that malicious traffic is not seen in most cases.

Moreover, the Kronos has been reported to be based on the source code of Carberp.

It also known that the version available on the market is a French variant of the infection, and the odds are that some other variants aimed at other countries are circulating on the Internet.

If you find that you are provided with some odd fill-in form where you are supposed to provide your sensitive information, you should ignore it in order to prevent financial damage. Moreover, you should ignore email letters asking you to verify some online banking-related information by clicking a link or replying to the email. If you want to be secure on the Internet, you should keep the computer protected, and we recommend that you use a reputable spyware and malware prevention tool.

The Kronos Trojan is an extremely complex infection, and the removal of this program is a cumbersome process. If you have no working knowledge of malware removal, you should not start searching for the components of the threats. We recommend implementing SpyHunter because this real-time security program can remove the infection and safeguard the system against multiple malicious threats.