New Zeus Variant Comes Complete With a Signed Certificate

Yet another variant of the Zeus banking Trojan has surfaced; this one comes disguised as an Internet Explorer document and uses an authentic digital certificate to download a rootkit onto infected machines. According to researchers at the SSL firm Comodo, more than 200 examples of the Trojan have...

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...

Twitter Malware spotted in the wild stealing banking credentials

Trusteer researcher Tanya Shafir has recently identified an active configuration of TorRAT targeting Twitter users. Other than spreading ideas on the most popular social networks, now cyber criminals are spreading malware. The malware launches a Man-in-the-Browser MitB attack through the browser ...

Tatanga Trojan Mixes MitB with Social Engineering

Cybercriminals are using the Tatanga trojan to carry out a complicated man-in-the-browser MitB attack that enables the circumvention of SMS authentication for financial transactions, according to Trusteer’s Amit Klein. The attack is targeting the customers of a number of banks in Germany. How man...