Business owners might easily fall for the latest emails that seem to be coming from the US Chamber of Commerce, announcing their intention of helping the victim. What unsuspecting internauts don't know is that the note's attachment actually contains the infamous bank account-stealing Trojan known as ZeuS.
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6 October 2011
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A UK cybercriminal gang of 13 people, part of an international online bank heist scheme, have met the end of the road after stealing close to £3 million ($4.6 million or €3.5 million) from the accounts of companies and individuals.
The UK Metropolitan Police released a press statement revealing that the... |
5 October 2011
03:02 GMT |
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Security researchers from email security provider AppRiver warn of a new IRS-themed spam campaigns which takes advantage of the tax filing period to distribute a variant of the infamous ZeuS banking trojan.The rogue emails bear a subject of "Your Federal Tax Payment Notice sn#######" (where # is a digit) and have for... |
16 February 2011
06:59 GMT |
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An email spam campaign pushing fake greeting cards sent by the White House, tricked employees in government-related organizations to infect themselves with a trojan that stole sensitive documents.The rogue emails were sent out on December 23, had a subject of "Merry Christmas!" and purported to come from a jeff.jones... |
4 January 2011
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Security researchers warn of a new wave of fake Electronic Federal Tax Payment System (EFTPS) emails directing users to drive-by download websites that distribute the ZeuS banking trojan.The fake emails claim the recipient’s electronic tax payment was rejected due to a error in the submission form. They read:&l... |
6 December 2010
10:26 GMT |
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Two suspects wanted by the FBI for their involvement in a ZeuS-related international cyberfraud operation, were arrested Wednesday by authorities in Wisconsin.Dorin Codreanu and Lilian Adam, both 21, were indicted along 37 other individuals in New York at the end of September on charges of conspiracy to commit bank f... |
5 November 2010
09:29 GMT |
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One week after ZBot detection was added to Microsoft's Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT), the company reports that the threat was found on one in five infected computers.ZeuS is a crimeware kit sold on the underground market. Its modular architecture makes it very flexible and many third-party plug-ins exte... |
19 October 2010
04:35 GMT |
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Security researchers warn that a ZeuS distribution campaign producing emails about failed electronic tax payments, has significantly increased its aggressiveness over the weekend.The rogue emails started hitting inboxes earlier last week and come with a subject of "Your Tax Payment ID ######### is failed. Update info... |
18 October 2010
02:15 GMT |
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Agents from FBI's Boston Field Office have captured Nikolai Garafulin, one of the fugitives in the ZeuS-related cyberfraud cases announced by authorities in New York late last month.On September 30, the Manhattan U.S. Attorney charged 37 defendants for their involvement in an international cyberfraud operation c... |
11 October 2010
06:12 GMT |
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Security researchers from Trend Micro have discovered several links between the recently discovered PE_LICAT.A file infector and the infamous ZeuS banking trojan.There are very few actively maintained viruses left, because this class of malware has been surpassed in prevalence by trojans and worms, which can be used ... |
8 October 2010
12:59 GMT |
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According to Ukrainian authorities around twenty people from different regions of the country are suspected of being involved in an international bank fraud operation related to the ZeuS trojan.The group of suspects includes the five key players arrested by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) last week in the city ... |
6 October 2010
03:14 GMT |
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Ukrainian authorities arrested five suspects earlier this week for their involvement in fraud schemes centered around the ZeuS computer trojan, which led to over $70 million being stolen.The arrests were the result of an international operation called "Trident Breach," which saw the participation of the FBI, the Secu... |
2 October 2010
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The Metropolitan Police Service has released the names of eleven Eastern Europeans charged for their roles in a major cyberfraud operation that involved using a computer trojan called ZeuS.Twenty suspects, fifteen men and five women, were arrested short before dawn on Tuesday, following police raids at various locati... |
30 September 2010
12:54 GMT |
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Authorities in UK dismantled a gang of Eastern European fraudsters, who used the notorious ZeuS computer trojan to steal as much as £20 million (over $31 million) from the bank accounts of hundreds of people.The bust was the result of an investigation by the Metropolitan Police Service's Police Central e-c... |
29 September 2010
06:08 GMT |
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Romanian security vendor BitDefender has released a free stand-alone tool, capable of removing all ZBot variants detected by company's antivirus products.ZBot is a notorious family of computer trojans with advanced information stealing capabilities, which also function as botnet clients.The ZBot malware is gener... |
15 September 2010
14:17 GMT |
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Several websites from the TechCrunch Network, including TechCrunch Europe, MobileCrunch and CrunchGear fell victim to a code injection attack, which served malware to visitors.Founded in 2005, TechCrunch is one of the most popular technology blogs on the Internet. Since then it has evolved into a network or websites... |
7 September 2010
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Security researchers from antivirus vendor Sunbelt Software, report finding a cache of information stolen by a ZeuS botnet. So far an analysis of the data revealed that many of the compromised hosts were inside the computer networks of various government agencies, fortune 500 companies and other organizations handlin... |
21 July 2010
10:35 GMT |
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The creators of the ZeuS crimeware toolkit are taking unprecedented measures to protect their product from cyber-criminals who don't want to pay up a hefty price for it. Security researchers report that a complex hardware-based licensing system has been introduced with the latest version of the trojan-generating... |
15 March 2010
10:49 GMT |
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Researchers from a security company have uncovered that a variant of the Zeus trojan has actively been used to siphon sensitive information from 2,500 organizations during the past two years. Dubbed the "Kneber botnet," the network of compromised computers spanning almost 200 countries is being controlled from server... |
18 February 2010
10:09 GMT |
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Zeus distributors have responded to journalists exposing a recent Zeus spear phishing campaign by hijacking their news articles and using them to target more people. The fresh Zeus spam features alerts about recent attempts to infect government and military systems with the trojan.Last week, former Washington Post jo... |
15 February 2010
06:57 GMT |
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