Beta Bot Trojan Emerges as New Type of Banking Malware

A new strain of banking malware, Beta Bot, has been refined over the last few months to target ecommerce and comes complete with an array of features to help prevent it from being caught by usual security measures. According to research conducted by RSA Security’s Limor Kessem, the bot started ou...

UK banks hit by Ramnit banking malware and social engineering attacks

A dangerous variant of the Ramnit malware has been discovered targeting the UK's financial sector. Trusteer claims to have discovered an interesting trojan based attack technique that injects highly convincing and interactive real-time messages into the user Web stream that they encounter when...

UK banks hit by Ramnit banking malware and social engineering attacks

A dangerous variant of the Ramnit malware has been discovered targeting the UK's financial sector. Trusteer claims to have discovered an interesting trojan based attack technique that injects highly convincing and interactive real-time messages into the user Web stream that they encounter when...

Fake Google Play Accounts Peddling Banking Malware

On the one year anniversary of Google Play comes news that a new botkit is making the rounds that leverages actual verified accounts from that marketplace to trick users into downloading phony banking applications. Brian Krebs, who goes into further detail about the malware in a post on his blog...

NBC Website Hacked, Leading Visitors to Citadel Banking Malware

Another day, another media company hacked. This time it’s NBC which has fallen to victim hackers on the heels of compromises of the New York Times and Wall Street Journal websites. Various experts have confirmed that NBC’s website is compromised and leading visitors to the dangerous Citadel banki...

Shylock banking malware spreads via Skype

The banking Trojan known as Shylock has been updated with new functionality, including the ability to spread over Skype. The program was discovered in 2011 that steals online banking credentials and other financial information from infected computers. Shylock, named after a character from...

Facebook Security, FBI Take Down Butterfly Botnet, Arrest 10

Facebook’s security team is being lauded by the FBI for its role the arrest of 10 individuals accused of spreading banking malware on the social networking site and collecting more than $850 million from fraudulent transactions. The arrests were carried out yesterday in the U.S., U.K., the Balkan...

New Strain of Man-in-the-Browser Malware Refines Data Sent to Attacker in Real Time

Hackers fond of man-in-the-browser MiTB attacks have brought efficiency to their work. New strains of MiTB malware have been discovered that are able to parse logs for the sensitive information hackers are targeting, rather than send massive unstructured logs back to the attacker’s command and...

Millions of DSL modems hacked in Brazil, spread banking malware

More than 4.5 million DSL modems have been compromised as part of a sustained hacking campaign in Brazil, with the devices spreading malware and malicious web address redirects. According to the malware analyst at Kaspersky Lab in Brazil, Fabio Assolini. The vulnerability exploited by attackers...

Report: Stealthy New Banking Malware Tilon Emerges

A new type of financial malware has surfaced that’s targeting information submitted through banking forms via the “Man in the Browser” MITB technique and proving difficult to detect, according to research published by computer security firm Trusteer today. A blog entry by the company’s Chief...

Small Biz Targeted by Banking Criminals

The American Bankers Association and the FBI are advising small and midsize businesses that conduct financial transactions over the Internet to dedicate a separate PC used exclusively for online banking as they ahve become targets of banking malware. Read the full article. The Last Watchdog...