Researchers have uncovered information about the origins of "Operation High Roller," a campaign targeting victims in the United States and the Netherlands with banking trojans to carry out ACH fraud.
Three men who used the SpyEye trojan to break into online bank accounts have been sentenced to prison in the U.K.
The infamous trojan Citadel, known for being the first crimeware kit to include a CRM module to communicate with its creators, will only be sold only to recommended sources.
According to an amended complaint filed last week in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn, Microsoft has named two defendants in its Zeus civil lawsuit who previously were listed as "John Does." They currently are in prison.
Variants of the SpyEye and Zeus toolkits are being used in a global fraud ring to evade multifactor authentication and raid high-balance accounts.
A new attack method, automatic transfer system (ATS), is being used in conjunction with popular crimeware kits to create "man-in-the-browser" assaults on bank accounts.
May 21, 2012
Compromising anywhere from a few thousand to well over a million systems, botnets are used by cyber criminals to take over computers and execute illegal and damaging activities.
Banking trojan Zeus and its related families, which have looted a number of small and midsize businesses to the tune of millions, may be partially crippled after the latest Microsoft botnet enforcement effort.
A new piece of mobile malware targets Russian users of Symbian and Windows Mobile phones, and an Android strain may be in development.
Microsoft has introduced a "fairly major" update to its Malicious Software Removal Tool to detect and kill infections of the insidious and constantly morphing data-stealing malware family known as Zbot, or Zeus. Since the software giant first added detection for Zeus last October, hundreds of thousands of Windows PCs have been expunged of the threat, prominent in banking and e-commerce fraud. But as Zeus, which recently merged code bases with SpyEye, continues to acquire advanced evasion capabilities, Microsoft has had to fight "sneakiness with sneakiness," according to a blog post on Wednesday. The company introduced the update as part of its monthly security patches, released on Tuesday.
Researchers at Trend Micro say they have been hot on the tracks of a corporate hacker, and now they are turning over their findings to U.S. law enforcement.
A variant of the SpyEye trojan is targeting the Google Android operating system.
