Brolux
Posted: October 19, 2015
Threat Metric
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Threat Level: The threat level scale goes from 1 to 10 where 10 is the highest level of severity and 1 is the lowest level of severity. Each specific level is relative to the threat's consistent assessed behaviors collected from SpyHunter's risk assessment model.
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Volume Count: Similar to the detection count, the Volume Count is specifically based on the number of confirmed and suspected threats infecting systems on a daily basis. High volume counts usually represent a popular threat but may or may not have infected a large number of systems. High detection count threats could lay dormant and have a low volume count. Criteria for Volume Count is relative to a daily detection count.
Trend Path: The Trend Path, utilizing an up arrow, down arrow or equal symbol, represents the level of recent movement of a particular threat. Up arrows represent an increase, down arrows represent a decline and the equal symbol represent no change to a threat's recent movement.
% Impact (Last 7 Days): This demonstrates a 7-day period change in the frequency of a malware threat infecting PCs. The percentage impact correlates directly to the current Trend Path to determine a rise or decline in the percentage.
Threat Level: | 8/10 |
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Infected PCs: | 295 |
First Seen: | October 19, 2015 |
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Last Seen: | November 24, 2021 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
Brolux (identified as Win32/Brolux.A by anti-virus vendors) is a Trojan horse infection that appears to target Japanese citizens predominantly. The purpose of the Trojan is to exploit known vulnerabilities in the user's computer and use them to drop its harmful payload to the targeted computer. Once Brolux has been deployed and executed, it may work in the background to gather information about the user's online activities silently, and more specifically the activities that are associated with financial data. Brolux has information about 88 Japanese Internet banking websites, and if the victims of the attack visit one of these websites, they may be redirected to a pre-made phishing web page that resembles the design and interface of the legitimate organization's website. The cyber crooks may harvest all of the information entered in the phishing page. This may include passwords, login credentials, bank balance, credit card information, and other data that may be used to cause financial harm if it is in the wrong hands.
Brolux's distribution happens with the help of some well-known exploits that target old vulnerabilities in Flash Player and Internet Explorer. Users who use outdated versions of these programs may be vulnerable to an infection with Brolux, so we can't stress how important it is it to keep your software updated to the latest version. Trojan droppers that may be used to spread Brolux may take advantage of mass email spam campaigns as their primary method of distribution, so users who use Japanese online banking websites should be extra cautious about the emails they read.
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