Flashlight: New Tool for Searching Malware
By Luciana on March 17, 2010 | Computer Security, Flashlight, Trusteer, Trusteer's CEO, bank
Flashlight is a latest product of security vendor Trusteer. It will allow banks to remotely investigate their customers' computers if it is suspected the system has been hacked.
Mickey Boodaei, Trusteer's CEO, stated that Flashlight is created to let banks to security experts to quickly identify what types of malicious software programs customers are colliding with in order to build better defenses.
The investigation is done when the bank physically takes customer's computer and goes to the lab or the hard disk has to be copied. This is the banks way of checking if the computer is infected.
Boodaei said that Flashlight detects malicious software programs on the computer and can send a report along with a copy of the suspicious program. "If they find a new piece of malware they haven't seen before on their customer's computer, this malware comes to us, we reverse engineer it and find out about its capabilities," Boodaei commented.
Flashlight will be used after the call of the customer about possible draud. The fraud investigation team would ask the person to install Flashlight. The user will then be asked to make and send log report which can be analized when the customer is on the telephone. It can also send other data, for example details of a computer's operating system, version number of applications and whether antivirus software was up-to-date at the time of the infection.
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