Tech News: The so-called “Beebone” malware bug has now been brought under control according to Europe’s Cybercrime Centre.
The malware which reinvented itself continuously to avoid detection by anti-virus programs has been causing havoc since late 2014.
The virus was an extremely sophisticated code that would disguise itself and reinstall itself under a different signature up to 20 times a day on infected computers.
The aim of the virus appears to have been stealing passwords in order to bring down legitimate websites & infect computers with other rootkits.
What makes this computer virus particularly interesting is that it had the ability to detect when it was being studied or even when a program was trying to quarantine it. It would then defend itself by reinventing itself.
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