Blog Posts Tagged with "Zeus"
Zeus Malware Targeting Facebook, Gmail and Yahoo Users
May 16, 2012 Added by:Headlines
"We've recently discovered a series of attacks being carried out by a P2P variant of the Zeus platform against some of the internet’s leading online services... The attacks are targeting users of Facebook, Google Mail, Hotmail and Yahoo – offering rebates and new security measures..."
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Zeus Trojan Takes Aim at Cloud Payroll Services
April 12, 2012 Added by:Headlines
"Zeus captures a screenshot of a Ceridian payroll services web page when a corporate user whose machine is infected... visits this website. This allows Zeus to steal the user id, password, company number and the icon selected by the user for the image-based authentication system..."
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Majority of SpyEye Trojan C and C Located in United States
March 28, 2012 Added by:Headlines
"SpyEye, along with ZeuS, are notorious banking Trojans that have helped thieves steal more than $100 million around the world. Without an end-user PC solution, banks face great difficulty protecting individual customers from the sophisticated threats posed..."
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Microsoft and Law Enforcement Hit Zeus Botnet Servers
March 26, 2012 Added by:Headlines
"With this legal and technical action, a number of the most harmful botnets using the Zeus family of malware worldwide have been disrupted in an unprecedented, proactive cross-industry operation against this cybercriminal organization..."
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Zeus Trojan Bank Fraud Hacker Sentenced
March 26, 2012 Added by:Headlines
Hackers had used the Zeus Trojan, which would embed itself in victims’ computers and recorded their keystrokes as they logged into their online bank accounts, to steal money from small and mid-sized businesses throughout the United States...
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The Top Forty Banks Targeted by the SpyEye Trojan
March 21, 2012 Added by:Headlines
Researchers from F-Secure released a list of the top forty banks targeted by SpyEye, one of the more powerful data-sniffing Trojans ever developed. The release of the SpyEye source code last year meant a dramatic increase in its application became a very real scenario...
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Sophisticated New Zeus Variants Continue to Propagate
February 24, 2012 Added by:Headlines
"Every peer in the botnet can act as a C&C server, while none of them really are one. Bots are now capable of downloading commands, configuration files, and executables from other bots - every compromised computer is capable of providing data to the other bots..."
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The Implications of Malware-as-a-Service
January 25, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
Criminal operations are managed as corporations and malware is designed as a service, with a maniacal attention paid to product quality. The life cycle is the most amazing aspect: From design, release, to after sales support - each stage is implemented with care and attention...
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FBI Warns: GameOver
January 10, 2012 Added by:Kevin McAleavey
The significant part of the DDOS angle with the GameOver Zeus Trojan attack is that it serves as a diversion while the looting continues, and prevents access to mitigation with the bank until it's too late. That's what motivated the FBI to put out this alert...
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Zeus Trojan Gains Peer-to-Peer Functionality
October 13, 2011 Added by:Headlines
"A few weeks ago I noticed that no new murofet/LICAT C&C domain names have been registered... I was a little bit confused and decided to analyze a recent Zeus sample... My first guess was: This is not ZeuS. But after I've analysed the infection I came to the conclusion that it is..."
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Zeus Trojan Gains Self-Propagating Ability via Ramnit
August 26, 2011 Added by:Headlines
“Unlike the past, when financial institutions had to defend against a limited number of malware platforms, attacks can now come from virtually any malicious software program - old or new. The malware distribution channel for fraudsters has increased in scale significantly..."
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Zeus Trojan Spreading via Facebook Friend Requests
August 24, 2011 Added by:Headlines
The malware is spreading by sending messages through Facebook notifications. When a user clicks the link to approve a "friend" request it opens a page that invites him to install the what is purported to be the latest version of Adobe Flash Player, but actually installs the malware...
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SpyEye Trojan Source Code Now in the Wild
August 17, 2011 Added by:Headlines
"Now that SpyEye has been outed, it is only a matter of time before this becomes a much larger malware threat than any we have seen to date. So for the next few months, please hold onto your seats people… this ride is about to get very interesting..."
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Federal Reserve Spam Message Carries Zeus Payload
June 30, 2011 Added by:Headlines
"The attack appears [to] focus on users of online banking services, especially small businesses and corporations. The messages are not well done. They are badly written and don’t really attempt to hide the fact that the attached file has the double extension .pdf.exe..."
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Fake Windows Security Updates Spread Zeus Trojan
May 13, 2011 Added by:Headlines
In the run-up to Microsoft's Patch Tuesday, Windows users are being warned of an email spam campaign designed to infect PC's with the Zeus Trojan. Researchers indicate the malware spam operation began on Friday, May 6, and is still actively delivering the fake update alerts...
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Source Code for Zeus Crimeware Toolkit Disclosed
May 11, 2011 Added by:Headlines
"With the source code in the wild it's likely we'll see an increase in attacks since lots of potential criminals might have been lacking both financials and trustworthiness to obtain their own license of this kit. Now being available as source code we'll likely see rebranding and modifications..."
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