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Security researchers from Kaspersky warn that banking trojans of Brazilian origin have started targeting banks from Spain, Portugal and other countries.European financial institutions have traditionally been targeted by widespread trojans like ZeuS or SpyEye, while Brazilian trojans from the Banker family have pretty... |
31 August 2011
03:11 GMT |
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Security vendor Trusteer warns about a file infector which in the past several weeks has begun to transition towards stealing financial information.Dubbed Ramnit, the virus was first discovered in 2010 and infects executable and HTML files in order to spread. It also copies itself to removable drives and opens a back... |
26 August 2011
12:54 GMT |
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Security researchers warn that variants of a ZeuS spin-off trojan called Ice-IX are being distributed from osCommerce websites compromised during a recent mass injection attack.The attack targeting osCommerce installations vulnerable to a flaw that dates from November 2010 began at the end of July.The code injection ... |
26 August 2011
05:34 GMT |
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Security researchers from Kaspersky Lab warn about a new crimeware pack called Ice IX which was built using the ZeuS source code leaked earlier this year.Just like its parent, Ice IX is sold on the underground market and can be used to generate custom trojans that join infected computers into botnets.According to Kas... |
24 August 2011
08:50 GMT |
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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
06:57 GMT |
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The German Federal Police (BKA) has warned consumers about a new banking trojan that tricks victims into transferring money out of their accounts by themselves.While that might sound improbable, the attack is actually very sneaky and relies on web injects, a technique commonly used by banking trojans to modify pages ... |
29 July 2011
10:54 GMT |
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Security researchers from Trend Micro warn of a new email attack distributing a banking trojan that targets the customers of Spanish financial institutions.The emails purport to come from the National Police of Spain and contain a link to a trojan downloader which when run installs the banking malware detected by Tre... |
21 July 2011
12:41 GMT |
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The Special Broadcasting Service (SBS), an Australian public broadcasting company, instructs it web visitors to scan their computers for malware after its website was compromised this weekend and used to distribute a trojan."This is the first time that the SBS site has suffered any sort of attack, however, unfortunat... |
18 July 2011
10:46 GMT |
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Security researchers have identified a Zbot component designed for Android which steals mobile transaction authentication numbers send by banks via SMS.ZeuS, aka Zbot, is one of the most popular banking trojans. Even though the original author of the malware has retired, the source code is available online for anyone... |
9 July 2011
06:55 GMT |
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Hackers have managed to hijack Simon Pegg's Twitter account and used it to distribute a banking trojan to his over 1.3 million followers."Download the new 'Paul' Screen Saver http://tinyurl.com/[censored] after download right click and press install," a tweet posted from the British actor's accoun... |
27 June 2011
05:57 GMT |
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Security researchers warn about a wave of fake emails purporting to come from the Federal Reserve and distributing a variant of the notorious ZeuS trojan.Even though the email body contains the header and logo of the Federal Reserve, the messages were crafted to appear as originating from ach_rejects@nacha.org.NACHA ... |
23 June 2011
12:55 GMT |
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Security researchers from browsing security firm Trusteer warn that an older, but relatively obscure, piece of malware has been modified for financial fraud.The trojan, which the firm dubs Sunspot, is currently detected by only 9 out of the 42 antivirus engines available on Virus Total.Its infection rate is on par wi... |
12 May 2011
09:56 GMT |
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The Internet might soon be plagued by new versions of the notorious ZeuS banking trojan because its source code is now freely available online.ZeuS remains the most popular crimeware toolkit despite its development having stopped last autumn when its creator retired.The ZeuS Bot (Zbot) trojan is one of the most succe... |
11 May 2011
12:37 GMT |
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A gang that used a computer trojan to break into online banking accounts and steal money was dismantled by the Finnish police who arrested seventeen suspects.According to Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer at Finnish antivirus vendor F-Secure, the attacks occurred in early 2010 and targeted customers of Nordea Fi... |
10 May 2011
14:22 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
03:49 GMT |
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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
12:53 GMT |
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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
11:32 GMT |
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Security researchers worry that ZeuS source code, which is already available for sale on the underground market, could become widely available for anyone to use.The history of ZeuS, one of the longest running and most successful trojans ever created, took an interesting turn last year when its creator decided to reti... |
2 April 2011
03:45 GMT |
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Security researchers from Symantec warn of a new banking trojan capable of hijacking the SSL connections between browsers and online banking sites in a way that is hard to spot.Variants of this malware, which Symantec detects as Trojan.Tatanarg, have been in circulation since last October, but its code is believed to... |
3 March 2011
00:06 GMT |
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Spanish security firm S21sec has identified a new banking trojan capable of injecting HTML into all popular browsers which uses a rootkit to hide its components.Dubbed Tatanga, the trojan is written in C++ and is organized in modules with different functionality which are decrypted in memory as needed.Like other bank... |
26 February 2011
03:30 GMT |
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Trusteer, a provider of secure browsing solutions, warns that a new banking trojan capable of hijacking online banking sessions in real time has been identified.Dubbed OddJob, after Goldfinger's henchman in the Bond series, the trojan appeared a few months ago, but it was kept under wraps because of ongoing law ... |
22 February 2011
06:56 GMT |
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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 warn that Carberp, a relatively new banking trojan with features similar to the notorious ZeuS, has received an update which encrypts the traffic with the command and control servers.Carberp appeared around May last year, but originally it was mostly used as a trojan downloader to install other m... |
21 January 2011
12:42 GMT |
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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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Security researchers from Kaspersky warn of an email-based attack directed at Brazilian online banking users, which uses real names and national identification numbers, to trick them into downloading a trojan.The fake emails are crafted to appear as originating from Banco Itaú, one of the largest banks in... |
4 November 2010
07:53 GMT |
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Security researchers from FireEye have identified a new banking trojan, which is capable of launching man-in-the-browser (MITB) attacks and targets an unusually high number of financial institutions.Dubbed Feodo by the security vendor, the malware is similar in concept and features to other banking trojans like ZeuS,... |
22 October 2010
06:48 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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Researchers warn that a new banking trojan, which appeared earlier this year, has many features similar to the infamous ZeuS crimeware and displays the same level of sophistication.Dubbed Carberp, the trojan was first discovered back in May, but it started out as a delivery platform for other malware and was probably... |
12 October 2010
11:55 GMT |
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An Australian hacker who was previously arrested for creating and using an information stealing trojan to capture bank account details pleaded guilty. The Adelaide-based malware writer is scheduled for sentencing in September.Anthony Scott Harrison, 20, from Black Forest, a suburb of Adelaide, the capital city of Sou... |
26 July 2010
05:48 GMT |
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Security researchers have come accross a new ZBOT sample which targets several online banking systems in Russia. The variant was generated with a very old version of the ZeuS toolkit.ZeuS is a one of the most widespread and active developed crimeware toolkits. The program is so popular because it makes it easy for ev... |
6 July 2010
03:08 GMT |
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A Californian escrow firm that had $465,000 stolen from its bank account, with the help of a computer trojan, was forced to sign up for a loan to replace the missing funds. The cybercrooks responsible defeated several online banking security measures in order to steal the money.According to Krebs on Security, the sec... |
29 June 2010
06:33 GMT |
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Security researchers from antivirus vendor Trend Micro have identified a variant of the infamous ZeuS computer trojan, which targets large banks located in Italy, Germany, France and the United Kingdom. The command and control server has been tracked down to a server in Serbia previously used in other cyber-criminal ... |
24 March 2010
11:26 GMT |
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Researchers from Atlanta-based security vendor SecureWorks have discovered a new information-stealing trojan facilitating ACH and wire fraud. The trojan has all the capabilities of malware commonly used to steal money from SMBs and non-profits.An unprecedented wave of Automated Clearing House (ACH) and wire fraud sta... |
11 February 2010
10:29 GMT |
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Malware distributors are hard at work again to infect computer users with the notorious Zeus banking trojan. Their newest spam campaign informs users that their email accounts have been deactivated and instructs them to run an infected file.The malicious emails come with a "your mailbox has been deactivated" subject ... |
18 November 2009
05:10 GMT |
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Security researchers warn that a spam campaign distributing a new Zbot version is currently in circulation. The bogus emails try to trick users into opening and installing the malicious attachments, which are passed as a tool for checking the account balance. The emails have their header spoofed to appear as origina... |
14 November 2009
06:02 GMT |
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Security experts analyzing mail traffic are reporting a significant decline in phishing-related e-mails during the first half of 2009. The drop suggests that this type of activity has become less profitable for cybercrooks, who now prefer other approaches, such as information stealing trojans.According to spam analys... |
27 August 2009
08:01 GMT |
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After Bullitt County's bank account was recently drained of $415,000, due to malware being installed on the treasurer's computer, more similar cases have been reported across the United States. A public school district from near Pittsburgh was left short of over $700,000, while an auto parts business in Gai... |
21 July 2009
09:50 GMT |
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The broadband Internet service of NET Serviços de Comunicação (NET Communications Services), called NET Vírtua, was the target of unnamed attackers earlier this month. According to Brazilian media outlet Globo.com, NET's DNS cache has been poisoned to serve a banking trojan to Virtua ... |
27 April 2009
06:35 GMT |
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UK's new division of cybercops, the Police Central e-crime Unit (PCeU), has marked its first successful operation by arresting a gang of nine London-based Eastern Europeans, who compromised computers at various financial institutions and siphoned money from their customers' accounts. On Wednesday, the poli... |
10 April 2009
04:20 GMT |
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Malware analysts from e-mail communication security vendor MX Lab, warn about a new version of the Zbot banking information-stealing trojan being distributed as an attachment to fake UPS delivery failure notification e-mails. The Zbot trojan, also known as Infostealer, is a rootkit-enabled malicious application with... |
3 March 2009
05:14 GMT |
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