ProstoStealer

ProstoStealer is a piece of commodity malware whose author has opted to sell it on Russian hacking forums. The threat is able to function as an information collector that will extract sensitive data from the infected computer silently. According to the advertisement published by the ProstoStealer's developer, the malware supports the following features:

• ProstoStealer collects data from Chromium-based browsers (cookies, passwords, credit cards, and others.)
• ProstoStealer collects session data for Telegram.
• ProstoStealer collects Steam files.
• ProstoStealer collects login credentials used by the Filezilla FTP client.
• ProstoStealer collects the files used by the Battle.NET gaming platform.
• ProstoStealer collects the 'wallet.dat' files used by various cryptocurrency wallets.

ProstoStealer is already being detected by the top anti-virus products on the market. Therefore, your data will be safe if you are using an up-to-date and trustworthy security application. It is strongly recommended to protect your system from threats like ProstoStealer because they have the ability to cause plenty of damage without raising any red flags – this threat can work in the background silently and collect your information without attracting any attention.

The infection rate of ProstoStealer is low for now relatively, but it is likely that more and more cybercriminals will opt to pay for this unsafe product.