New Fake Android Security App is Zeus Malware

There’s a new series of malicious Android applications masquerading as a premium security app for the mobile platform, and researchers say that the malware is part of the Zeus empire. The fake security apps began showing up in researchers’ malware traps in early June and newer versions have...

Tiny New Tinba Banker Trojan Found Stealing Financial Data

Security researchers have discovered a tiny new banking Trojan that comprises just 20 KB of code and uses a number of well-word man-in-the-browser tricks in an attempt to defeat two-factor authentication. Known as Tinba, the new malware doesn’t bother with any encryption or packing and yet is...

Zeus 2.x variant includes ransomware features

Zeus 2.x variant includes ransomware features Cybercriminals are getting more sophisticated, as reports are coming in that hacker coders have successfully merged a ransom trojan with a Zeus malware successor called Citadel. A notorious malware platform targeting financial information has added a...

New P2P Zeus Variant Targets Popular Sites with Bogus Offers

Facebook, Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail users should beware of rogue rebate offers and new secure payment options aimed at getting them to part with their debit card information. Earlier this week Amit Klein, CTO of Trusteer, announced the discovery of a peer-to-peer variant of the Zeus platform that...

FBI Concerned About Bitcoin Usage Among Cybercriminals

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has become increasingly concerned over the usage of the mostly-anonymous payment network Bitcoin by hackers and cybercriminals, according to an unclassified report obtained by Wired this week. The report, “Bitcoin Virtual Currency: Unique Features Present...

Zeus Variant Targeting Cloud-Based Payroll Service

There is a new Zeus Trojan variant that is targeting the Canadian human resources and payroll service provider, Ceridian. The attack mixes malware infection with social engineering. Trusteer’s Amit Klein explains that Zeus takes a screenshot of Ceridian’s log-in, then, when a user with an infecte...

Active Zeus C&Cs Remain Following Microsoft Takedown

It appears that Microsoft’s recent Zeus takedown attempt left some bots behind. Days after the company announced it had sinkholed the troublesome botnet, researchers say that there are still some C&C domains active. FireEye Malware Intelligence Lab’s Atif Mushtaq is reporting that, despite a...

New Ice IX Variant Steals Information From Facebook Users

A new iteration of the Ice IX malware has been spotted attacking Facebook users, according to researchers at Trusteer, who claim that now the malware is trying to swindle unsuspecting users out of sensitive information like credit card numbers and addresses. After launching a web injection, the...

US Airways Spam Redirects to Blackhole, Zeus Infection

Cybercriminals are targeting US Airways customers with malicious spam emails containing a link that, once clicked, initiates a series of redirects, eventually leading users to a domain hosting the Blackhole exploit kit. The fraudulent email presents itself as a check-in notification from US...

Richard Boscovich on the Zeus Botnet Takedown

Dennis Fisher talks with Richard Boscovich of the Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit about the operation to take down the Zeus botnet, how the company works with partners and law enforcement on these operations and the importance of getting the word out to consumers about the danger of botnets. Podcas...

A Russian Zeus attacker Sentenced from Million Dollar Fraud

A Russian Zeus attacker Sentenced from Million Dollar Fraud A Russian Hacker, who was part of an elaborate Cyber attack that used Zeus Banking Trojan in U.S. visas to move cash stolen from U.S. businesses out of the country was sentenced on March 23 to two years in U.S. federal prison. Nikokay...

Microsoft, Financial Groups Execute Takedown of Zeus Botnet Servers

Microsoft has gone after another botnet, this time targeting some of the command-and-control infrastructure behind the Zeus network with a takedown effort that included seizing two IP addresses used for C&C servers and filing suit against 39 unnamed defendants. The action against Zeus is the late...

Video: College Professor, Students Crack Zeus Trojan Mystery

A segment from last night’s Rock Center, Brian Williams’ TV news magazine, gives the inside scoop on how a college professor and his students helped law enforcement crack one of the largest and most profitable banking Trojan operations around. Reporter Richard Engel sat down with Gary Warner, a...

Mirage Anti-Bot 2.0 : Protection against ZeuS, SpyEye Malwares

Mirage Anti-Bot 2.0 : Protection against ZeuS, SpyEye Malwares Jean-Pierre aka DarkCoderSc and Fred De Vries Develop and Release the second version of Another great security tool named "Mirage Anti-Bot 2.0". Zeus and SpyEye were the two main families of botnet software. These types of malware are...

Citadel Malware Authors Adopt Open-Source Development Model

Attackers and malware authors are well-known for their proclivity for taking whatever tactics and techniques work for others and making them their own. That adaptive ability has now extended to the idea of open-source projects, with one malware gang having set up its own community for improving a...

Attackers Using Fake Google Analytics Code to Redirect Users to Black Hole Exploit Kit

Injecting malicious code into the HTML used on legitimate Web sites is a key part of the infection lifecycle for many attack crews, and they often disguise and obfuscate their code to make it more difficult to analyze or so it appears to be legitimate code. The latest instance of this technique h...

Attackers Moving Zeus Servers to Former Soviet Union TLD

The groups of attackers that employ the Zeus toolkit for their scams and malware campaigns have long used sites in the .ru Russian TLD as homes for their botnet controllers. Security researchers and law enforcement agencies have had a difficult time making headway in getting these domains taken...

Phishing Campaign Using Spoofed US-CERT Email Addresses

On January 10, 2012, US-CERT received reports of a phishing campaign that is spoofing US-CERT email to deliver a variant of the Zeus/Zbot Trojan known as Ice-IX. This campaign appears to be targeting a large number of private sector organizations as well as federal, state, and local governments...

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...