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  • VB2017 video: Client Maximus raises the bar

    Brazil has long been known as a hotbed of cybercrime, but what makes the country especially unique is that a lot of this cybercrime is inwards-focused. Thus there are many malware strains written explicitly to target the country. One of them is Client Maximus, a banking trojan discovered in 2017 by researchers from IBM Trusteer…

  • VB2017 video: Client Maximus raises the bar

    Brazil has long been known as a hotbed of cybercrime, but what makes the country especially unique is that a lot of this cybercrime is inwards-focused. Thus there are many malware strains written explicitly to target the country. One of them is Client Maximus, a banking trojan discovered in 2017 by researchers from IBM Trusteer…

  • MnuBot banking trojan communicates via SQL server

    Researchers at IBM X-Force have discovered a new banking trojan, dubbed ‘MnuBot’, which is targeting Internet users in Brazil. The trojan performs tasks common to banking malware, such as logging keystrokes, creating screenshots and overlaying the bank’s website with an invisible form. What is most noticeable, though, is the use of a Microsoft SQL server…

  • MnuBot banking trojan communicates via SQL server

    Researchers at IBM X-Force have discovered a new banking trojan, dubbed ‘MnuBot’, which is targeting Internet users in Brazil. The trojan performs tasks common to banking malware, such as logging keystrokes, creating screenshots and overlaying the bank’s website with an invisible form. What is most noticeable, though, is the use of a Microsoft SQL server…

  • Ransomware not a problem for half of businesses

    If you are wondering why ransomware continues to thrive, a recent study from IBM Security provides a simple explanation: 70 per cent of the ransomware-infected businesses they surveyed ended up paying the ransom to get their data back. Clearly this goes against the advice given by many security professionals, which is never to pay the…

  • Ransomware not a problem for half of businesses

    If you are wondering why ransomware continues to thrive, a recent study from IBM Security provides a simple explanation: 70 per cent of the ransomware-infected businesses they surveyed ended up paying the ransom to get their data back. Clearly this goes against the advice given by many security professionals, which is never to pay the…

  • VB2015 paper: VolatilityBot: Malicious Code Extraction Made by and for Security Researchers

    Given the sheer volume of new malware samples discovered every day, security researchers eagerly make use of tools that will help automate their research and analysis. IBM Trusteer researcher Martin Korman wrote one such tool, ‘VolatilyBot’, which extracts malicious code from packed binaries, leveraging the functionality of the Volatility Framework . At VB2015 in Prague,…

  • 100,000 new phishing sites set up in 7 days

    IBM sees huge rise in kit-build scam sites. Phishing watchers at IBM ‘s X-Force research team have recorded an enormous burst of phishing activity in the last seven days, with over 114,000 new sites appearing in the week from 11 – 18 June. The vast majority of the new sites appear to have been created…