New Cridex Banking Trojan variant Combines Data Stealer and Email Worm

Question

Hi Team,
In an effort to infect large number of people, cybercriminals have developed a new malicious software program that contains functionality to spread itself quickly.
Geodo, a new version of the infamous
Cridex (also known as Feodo or Bugat) banking information stealing Trojan works in conjunction with a worm that sends out emails automatically to continue its self-spreading infection method, effectively turning each infected
Windows system in the botnet for infecting new targets, Seculert warned.
Ref:-
http://www.seculert.com/blog/2014/07/geodo-new-cridex-version-combines-data-stealer-and-email-worm.ht
Here again, Our Securiry team wanted to know whether FEP able to detect this Malware or not.
Please let us know your update on this.
Regards
Sudam Bisi
Cognizant

Answer 1

There are many ways which FEP protects you against different kind of malwares, for example using heuristic detection and behavior monitoring , it is possible to detect even unknown malwares. The issue with new malware and cybercriminals is an on-going issue
and for this reason you have regular updates.
If you have sample of this threat, you may submit it to Microsoft Malware Protection Center:
http://cyberdefend.wordpress.com/2012/08/11/submit-sample-to-microsoft-malware-protection-center/
https://www.microsoft.com/security/portal/submission/submit.aspx