Microsoft introduces detection for Bafruz trojan

Microsoft has added detection capabilities for Bafruz, a backdoor trojan capable of taking a number of malicious actions on victims’ computers.

Bafruz can take control of accounts on social networking sites like Facebook and [Russian-based] Vkontakte, launch distributed denial-of-service attacks, conduct Bitcoin mining, install additional malware, and disable security products, like anti-virus, said the Tuesday blog post from the Microsoft Malware Protection Center.