Dyre Banking Trojan Avoids Sandbox Detection

A number of unidentified commercial and freely available sandboxes fail to detect a new version of the Dyre banking Trojan, which was recently blamed for more than $1 million in losses to financial institutions and enterprises. The new strain of Dyre, also known as Dyreza, uses a fairly new...

Dridex Campaign Evades Detection with AutoClose Function

Pushers of the Dridex banking malware have gone old-school for some time now, moving the malware through phishing messages executed by macros in Microsoft Office documents. While macros are disabled by default since the release of Office 2007, the malware includes somewhat convincing social...

Upclicker Trojan Evades Sandbox Detection by Hiding in a Mouse Click

Finding keen new ways to avoid detection by security systems, malware scanners in particular, seems to be a primary objective for malware writers. Researchers at FireEye have found one of the most ingenious, a Trojan called Upclicker that eludes automated sandbox detection by hooking into a mouse...