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Trusteer Flashlight Provides Malware Analysis and Remediation for Financial Institutions
March 2010 by Emmanuelle Lamandé
Trusteer announced Trusteer Flashlight. This new remote fraud investigation and mitigation service identifies the attack source on a customer’s machine, gathers samples, and can reverse engineer the mechanism used by the malware to commit fraud.
To enable financial institutions to respond in real-time to financial fraud, the Trusteer Flashlight service can instantly initiate a remote investigation into an attack. The affected customer simply needs to install Trusteer’s Rapport desktop forensic and protection software, which immediately identifies the malware, or in the case of an unidentified variant, detects suspicious malware behavior and lifts a sample or samples from the computer. These are then examined and reverse engineered by Trusteer’s fraud and malware experts to identify the mechanism used to commit fraud.
Following the analysis, the financial institution receives a full report on the malware, the complete source code for future reference, and detailed recommendations on how to detect and block future attacks. In addition, Trusteer reports the malware to all desktop security vendors for industry-wide protection, performs ongoing analysis of associated command and control servers, and submits them to takedown services. Trusteer Flashlight includes ongoing consulting by Trusteer’s security experts to help mitigate future threats.
Availability
Trusteer Flashlight is available immediately from Trusteer and its business partners worldwide as part of the Rapport offering, as an add-on module, or as a standalone solution.
