A Novel Information Stealing Malware

Technology has become an integral part of our society, bringing about a dependency to devices which, with all its pros, pose a threat of being vulnerable to malicious programs with the ability to steal data and compromise privacy. Attackers have become more adept at making malware that is harder to detect and the number of such attacks is on the rise. This paper approaches user monitoring and data theft from the perspective of an attacker, exposing weaknesses in systems, optimizing malicious software to perform tasks such as key logging, video and screen recording, encrypted report mailing and browser history monitoring using multi-threading to make a novel information stealing malware which is lightweight, efficient and robust. With a better understanding of how such software programs interact with our machines, it will be easier to reverse engineer and implement security protocols to protect society from such threats.