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Crooks charge premium for filter-evading Trojan.....Cybercrooks have released a custom-built Trojan, dubbed Limbo 2, "guaranteed" by its shady creators to continually evade the top ten anti-virus products on the market.The Limbo 2 trojan is touted as being able to bypass products from Symantec, McAfee, AVG and others to steal login credentials from online banking sessions. Crackers hawking tailored versions of the trojan on underground forums are selling licences for up to $1,300, net security firm PrevX reports. The "guarantee" of non-detection represents a new level of sophistication in the underground malware business, which is borrowing more and more business models from the legitimate software industry. According to an analysis by PrevX, the Limbo 2 trojan features a changeable shell. While the payload and end result is the same, this pliable cloak can come in many guises allowing the malware package to present an almost unlimited number of variants. This technology is designed to allow Limbo 2 to slip past conventional signature-based anti-virus detection. Each variant sold is customised to feature the drop site for stolen information.Full Article Here -> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/18/limbo_trojan/