Alureon (also known as TDSS or TDL-4) is a trojan and rootkit created to steal data by intercepting a system's network traffic and searching for banking usernames and passwords, credit card data, PayPal information, social security numbers, and other sensitive user data.[1] Following a series of customer complaints, Microsoft determined that Alureon caused a wave of BSoDs on some 32-bit Microsoft Windows systems. The update, MS10-015,[2] triggered these crashes by breaking assumptions made by the malware author(s).[3][4]
According to research conducted by Microsoft, Alureon was the second most active botnet in the second quarter of 2010.[5]
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