New Pandemiya Banking Trojan Written From Scratch

Brand new, written-from-scratch malware is a relatively rare undertaking on the underground. Aside from some private endeavors, source code is available for a number of popular Trojans, including Zeus, Citadel and Carberp, making it easy for attackers to simply grab one off the shelf and get...

i2Ninja Financial Malware Communicates on I2P Darknet

The Mevade botnet made news when it was found to be using the Tor anonymity network to communicate with its command and control infrastructure. Running C&C on Tor, however, turned out to be a fatal mistake when Tor usage spiked alerting administrators to the unusual activity. A group of Russian...

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...