Amarillo Stockbroker

Amarillo Stockbroker, or the Amarillo Trojan (also known as Money machine or Credit Angel) is a Trojan horse created by Amarillo Sam, a famous Belgian Hacker, that is known to cause security breaches in Banks and Insurance Companies internal softwares.

Infection

Amarillo Stockbroker infects servers by exploiting a vulnerability in many ports in the infected computer and open an access to any Hacker having the adequate program and encrypted keys on its own computer. This means that the Hacker may access any datas on the network of Banks and Financial institutions. Then, the Hacker will be able to access programs managing the openings of accounts, acceptances of credit cards and authorizations of credit.

References

* [http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_127690.htm McAfee's information on trojans]

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