Aviv Raff on the Evolution of Exploit Kits

In this video, via Kaspersky’s Lab Matters, Ryan Naraine and Seculert’s Aviv Raff discuss the evolution of exploit kits and the recent merger of Spyeye and Zeus...

SpyEye 1.3.45 Download - Loader source code

SpyEye 1.3.45 Download - Loader source code A new fresh and sophisticated web-based bot named SpyEye is around in the markets and looks like to be the possible successor of the famous Zeus Trojan due to its very interesting features, with the main objective to steal bank accounts, credit cards, f...

SpyEye 1.3.45 Download - Loader source code

SpyEye 1.3.45 Download - Loader source code A new fresh and sophisticated web-based bot named SpyEye is around in the markets and looks like to be the possible successor of the famous Zeus Trojan due to its very interesting features, with the main objective to steal bank accounts, credit cards, f...

Researchers Find SpyEye Operations Hosted on Amazon's S3

Cybercriminals are increasingly turning to cloud storage services to distribute their malware, and not just the free ones, according to virus researchers at Kaspersky Lab. According to a new post on Securelist, Kaspersky’s research blog, cybercriminals have been using Amazon’s Simple Storage...

Malware, Exploit Kit Writers Merging Their Talents

MALAGA, SPAIN–Botnets have been around for more than 15 years now, and for much of that time they’ve been the favored platform for attackers looking to compromise users on a large scale and monetize those infected machines. But now, as researchers and authorities begin to have more success with...

SpyEye Trojan Targeted Verizon's Online Billing Site

Attackers used the infamous SpyEye Trojan to target Verizon’s online billing page for nearly a week earlier this month, trying to nab users’ sensitive personal and financial information, researchers say. The Trojan used a method of attack known as HTML injection to modify the pages presented in a...

Week in Security: Stuxnet Revelations and Black Hat Happenings

Stuxnet chat saturated the news this week after the New York Times got the cyber security echo chamber going with a story delving into the mysterious worm. But Stuxnet was hardly the only news this week, which also saw new research from the Black Hat Briefings conference in Washington D.C. and...

Zeus/SpyEye Merger Promises More Sophisticated Bots

The recent merger of the Zeus and SpyEye botnets has created a mega-botnet that promises to increase the effectiveness, complexity, and prevalence of malware across the Web, according to a blog post by Francois Paget of McAfee Labs. The SpyEye/ZS Toolkit v1.4.1, the first evidence of a long-rumor...

Tracker: SpyEye Not Yet Zeus-Like In Stature

The SpyEye Tracker, a new site that hopes to trace the activity of the budding SpyEye Trojan, went live this week and shows the emerging SpyEye botnet to be global in reach, but still much smaller than the Zeus botnet with which it has merged. SpyEye Tracker has already identified 68 malicious...