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Tag: trojan

  • Banking malware hosted on Amazon’s cloud servers

    Trojan targets mostly Brazilian banks. Researchers have discovered malware hosted on Amazon Web Services that steals victims’ bank account data. Acting as a rootkit, the malware attempts to deactivate at least four different anti-virus programs as well as a special security application used by many Brazilian banks to protect their customers’ online banking accounts. The…

  • Spammers use unicode trick to manipulate file names

    Windows executable appears to be Word document. An unicode trick that reverses the order of some characters has been used by spammers to disguise malicious attachments as harmless file types. Unicode enables the representation on computer screens of a very large and still growing number of alphabets, together with many special characters. Among this latter…

  • Zeus source code leaked

    Banking trojan among the most advanced of its kind. Researchers at Danish security firm CSIS have discovered that the full source code of the Zeus crime kit has been leaked to underground forums. Zeus, also known as Zbot, is one of the most advanced kits of its kind. The Zeus trojan is commonly used to…

  • Scammers take advantage of Epsilon data breach

    Trojan hidden as security tool for affected customers. Scammers are currently taking advantage of the data breach that affected email security provider Epsilon recently, by creating a copy of Epsilon ‘s website and claiming that people can download a ‘security tool’ that tells them whether they have been affected. While far from the first time…

  • Ransom trojan demands Windows re-activation

    Criminals make money through calls to supposedly free phone number. A new piece of ransomware has been discovered that shows the PC user a blue screen and asks them to re-activate Windows by calling a supposedly free phone number. As it turns out, the number is far from free and is a way for the…

  • ‘Job application’ contains malicious attachment

    $150,000 lost via banking trojan. An unidentified US company has learned the hard way that email attachments – even to those that appear to be solicited – may contain malware. The company in question had posted a job advertisement on an employment website, to which it received a response with what appeared to be a…

  • Eight Zeus-related money mules arrested

    Arrests in US and Moldova show that cybercriminals aren’t immune to the law. Police in the US state of Wisconsin have arrested two Moldovan citizens who they believe have worked as money mules, transferring money stolen using the Zeus trojan to overseas bank accounts. Meanwhile, in Moldova six individuals – among whom is at least…

  • Malicious tweets link to fake TweetDeck update

    Twitter resets passwords for accounts that appear to have been hacked. Twitter users who recently clicked on links in tweets urging them to upgrade their version of TweetDeck – the popular desktop software used to read and post on Twitter – may have found themselves infected with a trojan. Many of the tweets, which are…

  • Android SMS trojan goes wild

    Premium-rate text scam shows growing cracks in smart phone security. The first known SMS trojan affecting smart phones running Google ‘s Android operating system has been observed in the wild, highlighting growing cracks in the security veneer of the latest range of glossy smart phones. The trojan was first identified by researchers at Kaspersky Lab…

  • Firefox 4 crack spreads trojan

    ‘Cracked’ versions of free software used to spread malware In a new malware campaign, users are told they can download a free crack of the Firefox 4 browser, only to find themselves infected with trojans. The lure of ‘free’ has made many a user browse the more dodgy parts of the internet, where crooks are…