Inside a Banker Trojan

The attackers behind the raft of banker Trojans emanating from Brazil these days are continuing to refine their craft and learn new tricks. Their latest efforts have seen them going to greater lengths than ever to obfuscate their creations and hide their true functionality in order to evade...

Dental Practice Loses $200K to Criminals

Organized computer criminals yanked more than $200,000 out of the online bank accounts of a Missouri dental practice this month, in yet another attack that exposes the financial risks that small- to mid-sized organizations face when banking online. Read the full article. KrebsonSecurity...

Facebook Spam Tries to Phish Credentials

Hackers have flooded the Internet with virus-tainted spam that targets Facebook’s estimated 400 million users in an effort to steal banking passwords and gather other sensitive information. The emails tell recipients that the passwords on their Facebook accounts have been reset, urging them to...

Zeus/Zbot Banking Trojan/Data Theft (credentialed check)

The remote Windows host has files that indicate that the Zeus also known as Zbot banking trojan has been installed, or that stolen data collected by this trojan remains on the system. The Zeus trojan will intercept and log activity related to online banking, as well as other logins, such as web,...

Banking Losses for Small Biz Blowing Up

Most small business owners have no clue about the threats they face or the liability they assume when banking online, even as the frequency and sophistication of attacks appears to be increasing. Read the full article. KrebsonSecurity...

Online Banking Crime By The Numbers

Organized cyber criminals stole more than $25 million from small to mid-sized businesses in brazen e-banking heists in the 3rd quarter of 2009 alone, federal regulators said last week. Read the full article. KrebsonSecurity...

RSA 2010: BlackEnergy 2 Botnet Revealed

Like the sequel to a successful movie, the botnet behind the distributed denial of service attacks that hit the country of Georgia during its conflict with Russia in 2008 has been updated. This time though, the idea isn’t hacktivism—it’s stealing financial data and, unlike in the case of other...

RSA 2010: Banking Malware Sophistication Dupes Systems

The new class of threat represented by today’s banking malware like ZeuS can defeat much of the technology out there to combat it, admitted RSA bank-security panelists. Read the full article. Tech Target...

Mariposa Botnet Caught and Killed

Authorities have smashed one of the world’s biggest networks of virus-infected computers known as the Mariposa botnet, a data vacuum that stole credit cards and online banking credentials from as many as 12.7 million poisoned PCs. Read the full article. Associated Press...

Bank Trojan Annoys Users With Pop Ups

Researchers recently came face to face with a Trojan with an aggressive modus operandi – it continually forces you to update your banking credentials with irritating pop up windows. Read the full article. Help Net Security...

Here's How to Fix Online Banking Fraud

Guest editorial by Roel Schouwenberg Over the last few months, there’s been quite a lot of news chatter around Banker Trojans emptying out online bank accounts of small businesses in the U.S. Today, I was reading one of such stories on Brian Krebs’ site. After reading that story I came across...

Man in the Browser: Inside the Zeus Trojan

Man in the Browser a.k.a MITB is a new breed of attacks whose primary objective is to spy on browser sessions mostly banking and in that process intercept and modify the web page contents transparently in the background. In a classic MITB attack, it’s very likely that what the user is seeing on...

73 Percent of Users Reuse Banking Passwords

The majority of online banking customers reuse their online-banking login credentials on other websites, according to a new survey on password insecurity. Read the full article. The Register...

Hackers Winning Bank Authentication Battle

Security measures such as the use of one-time passwords and phone-based user authentication — considered among the most robust forms of IT defenses — are no longer enough to protect online banking systems against fraud, a Gartner report warns. Read the full article. Computerworld...

Inside An Online Banking Money Mule Scam

New evidence indicates one of the gangs chiefly responsible for bank attacks actually managed to hack directly into a West Virgina U.S. bank last year and siphon off tens of thousands of dollars with the aid of unsuspecting money mules. Read the full article. KrebsonSecurity...

User Logins At New York Bank Hacked

Hackers have stolen the login credentials for more than 8,300 customers of New York’s Suffolk County National Bank after breaching its security and accessing a server that hosted its online banking system. Read the full article. The Register...

Malware Open Season on Taxpayers

As any reader of this site knows, cybercriminals can steal your money not just by putting malware on your machine, but by phishing attacks too. Phishing attacks don’t just target online banking and e-payment systems, but almost any site which asks the user to input sensitive data. Sites run by...

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...

Cisco Defines Cybercrime ROI

The Cisco Cybercrime Return on Investment Matrix identifies the innovative and lucrative banking Trojan Zeus, as well as successful Web exploits that have dominated cybercrime as “rising stars.” Read the full article. TechTarget...

UK Police Arrest 2 in Zbot Plot

Authorities in the U.K. have arrested two people in connection with using a notorious Trojan in a scheme to steal online banking information. The man and the woman, both 20, were arrested by the Metropolitan Police Service in Manchester, according to police. The duo is accused of using the Zeus...