As pieces of malware and botnets become more common their prices seem to drop, making them highly accessible to almost anyone. McAfee experts found a Pastebin paste that advertised a variant of the SpyEye botnet for just $150 (€114). For this price, the buyer gets 3 months of free hosting, along with components... |
23 April 2012
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Recent findings claim that the two infamous pieces of malware never actually merged into one powerful Trojan as their authors promised at some point, but now they're suspected to come as a package.
According to The Threat Post, at first, the two malicious elements didn't get along at all. Each one of the... |
15 October 2011
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A Russian cybercriminal codenamed “Soldier” has managed to steal more that $3 million in the course of 6 months from U.S. organizations and individuals, being aided by two American accomplices and numerous money mules.
Trend Micro has been investigating the hacker who is supposedly a 20-year old from R... |
16 September 2011
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The builder application for the SpyEye trojan has been cracked prompting fears that the number of infections will spike and botnets will be harder to trace back to their creators.Along with ZeuS, SpyEye is one of the most sophisticated and popular trojans used by cyber fraudsters to steal online banking credentials a... |
16 August 2011
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The number of computers infected with the ZeuS banking trojan is four times higher than that of systems infected with SpyEye, according to statistics compiled by Trusteer.Trusteer specializes in protecting against malware that poses a direct financial risk. Its Rapport product secures browser sessions and prevents tr... |
8 August 2011
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Security researchers warn that cybercriminals are increasingly abusing Amazon's Web Services (AWS) to host malware, particularly banking trojans and exploit kits.The use of free hosting services for malicious purposes is extremely common. We previously reported about spam, phishing and malware distribution pages... |
2 August 2011
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Virgin Media has notified around 1,500 of its broadband customers that their computers are infected with the notorious SpyEye banking trojan.The action is part of a program the UK ISP announced last autumn which involves monitoring botnet lists maintained by various organizations for their own IPs.In this case, Virgi... |
20 June 2011
12:58 GMT |
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Security researchers from Armorize have detected drive-by download attacks launched from two of the most heavily trafficked adult video websites in the world.The malicious code was being loaded by rogue advertisements, commonly referred to as malvertizements, which made their way onto the websites.One of the two affe... |
25 May 2011
08:23 GMT |
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According to reports from the cyber criminal underground, the latest version of the SpyEye trojan comes with form grabbing support for Google Chrome and Opera, two browsers largely untouched by malware so far.Brian Krebs has published a screenshot taken from the trojan's latest "builder" version and it has check... |
27 April 2011
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Three men were arrested in UK under suspicion of participating in a cyber fraud operation that involved using a custom SpyEye trojan to compromise online banking accounts.SpyEye is a relatively popular crimeware toolkit that has been slowly eating away at the market share of the more notorious ZeuS.Following a series... |
13 April 2011
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Security researchers warn that the notorious SpyEye trojan has been fitted with a component designed to steal transaction authentication numbers from mobile phones.The new SpyEye variant was identified by security researchers from F-Secure in mid-March and targets an European bank that uses mobile transaction authori... |
5 April 2011
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The notorious SpyEye banking trojan has been updated with distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) functionality and is being used to attack a C&C blacklisting project.According to experts from RSA FraudAction Research Lab, the new DDoS plug-in was added to SpyEye v.1.3.10 specifically to attack abuse.ch.Abuse.ch is a pr... |
11 March 2011
12:36 GMT |
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M86 Security warns of a new spam run that generates malware-carrying emails purporting to come from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC).According to the M86 researchers, the emails are sent by Cutwail, a spam botnet which at its peak accounted for over 40% of the daily junk mail traffic.The rogue notific... |
17 February 2011
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Security researchers warn of a SpyEye distribution campaign which generates failed delivery notifications that purport to originate from a package delivery service.According to Belgian email security provider MX Lab the rogue emails bear a subject of "Post Express Service. Package is available for pickup! NR1535" and... |
1 February 2011
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Security researchers from Trend Micro have recently investigated new developments surrounding the SpyEye crimeware and have discovered that most computers infected with this threat are located in Poland.SpyEye is a sophisticated banking trojan which appeared around a year ago and positioned itself as an alternative t... |
27 January 2011
13:28 GMT |
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Security researchers from McAfee warn that the first crimware toolkit to result from the ZeuS-SpyEye merger is now available for purchase on the underground market.Earlier this year the security community was surprised to learn of rumors that ZeuS and SpyEye, two rival threats in the cybercriminal world, would be joi... |
14 January 2011
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Security researchers from Trend Micro claim that SpyEye's development was place on hold and that some of the trojan's features are being ported to the ZeuS crimeware.This means that previous suspicions according to which the two malware programs were going to be merged into one, were likely true.A month ago... |
25 November 2010
11:57 GMT |
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There are signs on underground Internet forums suggesting that the development of the notorious ZeuS trojan has stopped and the code base will be merged with that of it's biggest rival, SpyEye.It seems that ZeuS, the most successful information stealing trojan to date and the weapon of choice for cyberfraudsters... |
25 October 2010
13:39 GMT |
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Researchers from security giant Symantec are announcing that a new botnet toolkit is threatening the infamous Zeus trojan. Dubbed SpyEye and priced at $500, the crimeware comes with a "Zeus killer" feature.The Zeus computer trojan, also known as Zbot, is a well-maintained piece of malware that has been around since 2... |
10 February 2010
09:32 GMT |
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