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The new program has also been described as a tool

Dec. 9, 2018 by Ella Pickett

The new program has also been described as a tool for security analysts to "disrupt" a malicious program.

Separ, which was launched in late April, is known to be vulnerable to some forms of malware, but researchers noted that it has "never been tested in this way before," according to the researcher. The researcher added that it hasn't infected an entire computer in one run.

In the past, Separ has been seen as a tool for hackers to try and steal credentials, and this past Wednesday's malware attack against its website showed that the malware used on the site's servers is not a malicious one. The malware also has been seen as a tool to steal credentials from people within the country where the malware is located.

Separ's use of the new malware is "an attack on the identity of its users," said John Pérez, a security researcher at Drexel University and lead researcher on the malware. "It's like the Trojan horse that makes us all paranoid. But it also makes us all smarter."

"This is a Trojan horse of sorts," Pérez said. "And it's trying to steal some of the things that we take for granted. Like you can't take a computer and say, 'No, this is a fraud, you should not run this program on a computer or on the Internet.' And this is not just the problem of people being very paranoid, it's the problem of trying to steal credentials from our own country."

Separ's use of the new malware is "an attack on the identity of its users. It's like the Trojan horse that makes us all paranoid."