After Takedown, GameOver Zeus Banking Trojan Returns Again

A month after the FBI and Europol took down the GameOver Zeus botnet by seizing servers and disrupting the botnet’s operation, security researchers have unearthed a new variant of malware based explicitly on the same Gameover ZeuS that compromised users’ computers and collectively formed a massiv...

Possible New Version of GameOver Zeus Malware Emerges

It’s only been a little more than a month since the FBI and Europol took down the GameOver Zeus botnet, taking control of its command-and-control infrastructure and effectively cutting off the malware’s head. But researchers say that there are some indications that a new strain of the malware may...

Versatility of Zeus Framework Encourages Criminal Innovation

A new report on the Zeus trojan’s evolution shows that the malware was moved from harvesting online banking credentials to controlling botnets and launching distributed denial of service attacks attributes the evolution to the highly customized and incredibly versatile framework Zeus is today...

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...

Android Ransomware First to Encrypt Data on Mobile Devices

A strain of ransomware that encrypts data on Android mobile devices, the first of its kind, has spread to 13 countries since it was first spotted less than a month ago. Researchers at Kaspersky Lab today disclosed details on Pletor, an expensive Trojan that popped up on an underground forum selli...

GameOver Zeus Takedown Shows Good Early Returns

The effect of the takedown of the GameOver Zeus botnet this week has been immediate and significant. Researchers who track the activity of the peer-to-peer botnet’s activity say that the volume of packets being sent out by infected machines has dropped to almost zero. On Friday, the FBI and...

FBI, European Authorities Go After GameOver Zeus Botnet

UPDATE–Law enforcement agencies in Europe and the United States, including Europol and the FBI, ran a coordinated takedown of the GameOver Zeus botnet on Friday, seizing servers and disrupting the botnet’s operation. Authorities say that the same botnet has been used to distribute the CryptoLocke...

Gameover ZeuS Trojan Targets Users of Monster.com Employment Portal

Zeus Trojan is one of the most popular families of Banking Trojan, which was also used in a targeted malware campaign against a Salesforce.com customer at the end of the last month and researchers found that the new variant of Zeus Trojan has web crawling capabilities that are used to grab...

Gameover Malware, variant of ZeuS Trojan uses Encryption to Bypass Detection

The year begins with the number of new variants of malware that were discovered by various security researchers. The new variants are more complex, sophisticated and mostly undetectable. Two years back in 2012, the FBI warned us about the ‘GameOver’ banking Trojan, a variant of Zeus financial...

GameOver Zeus Now Using Encryption to Bypass Detection

Cybercriminals have begun to tweak the way the GameOver Zeus Trojan is being delivered to users’ machines, making it easier for the banking malware to evade detection and steal victims’ credentials. To get the job done the malware has been working in tandem with the malware Upatre. For about a we...

Gameover Zeus Variant Sends Malicious Email Via Cutwail Botnet

The crew responsible for operating the Gameover variant of the infamous Zeus banking trojan is soliciting the enormous Cutwail botnet’s spamming capacity as an engine to fire off millions of malicious emails that seemingly originate from a number of recognizable U.S. banks. The fraudulent emails...

Facing Post-Transaction Attacks, Banks Should Reassess Fraud Protection

Banks will have to continue to upgrade their fraud protection controls, especially in the face of new and evolving attacks exclusively designed to evade them, researchers now say. A blog post, penned by Trusteer’s CTO Amit Klein, offers some research on these so-called post-transaction attack...

New Zeus Variant Could Mean 'Gameover' for Unsuspecting Users

The FBI issued a warning late last week about ‘Gameover,’ a variant of the Zeus malware that can steal usernames and passwords. The malware is being propagated through spam e-mails purporting to come from the National Automated Clearing House Association NACHA, the Federal Reserve Bank and the...

FBI warning about Banking trojan "Gameover"

FBI warning about Banking trojan "Gameover" Organized crooks have begun launching debilitating cyber attacks against banks and their customers as part of a smoke screen to prevent victims from noticing simultaneous high-dollar cyber heists. On Friday the FBI issued a warning about a banking troja...