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A New Trojan Programme Has The Potential to Spread Very Quickly Over The Next Few Months
Nov 28, 2013A new Trojan programme that targets users of online financial services has the potential to spread very quickly over the next few months, security researchers warn. The malware was first advertised on a private cybercrime forum in July, ...
Tags: Online Banking, Threatonline, financial services, security
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Citadel Malware Steals Log-in Credentials and Credit Card Information From Users
Jul 1, 2013A new variant of the Citadel financial malware uses in-browser injection techniques combined with extensive content localization to steal log-in credentials and credit card information from users in different countries, according to ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
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Citadel Has Ability to Modify or Replace Websites Opened by Users on Infected Computers
Jul 1, 2013A new variant of the Citadel financial malware uses in-browser injection techniques combined with extensive content localisation to steal log-in credentials and credit card information from users in different countries, according to ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
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The Source Code for The Carberp Financial Malware Has Been Leaked Online
Jun 27, 2013The source code for the Carberp financial malware has been leaked online, increasing the risk that other cybercriminals will create their own variants based on it, according to researchers from Russian cybercrime investigations firm ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
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A New Variant of The Citadel Financial Malware Is Targeting Users of The Payza
May 28, 2013A new variant of the Citadel financial malware is targeting users of the Payza online payment platform by launching local in-browser attacks to steal their credentials, according to researchers from security firm Trusteer. Citadel is a ...
Tags: Payza, Payment Platform, Computer Products
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The Amount of Cyber-Criminal Activity Related to The Zeus Family Has Increased
May 28, 2013The amount of cyber-criminal activity associated with the Zeus family of financial Trojan programs has increased during the past few months, according to security researchers from anti-virus vendor Trend Micro. “The notorious ...
Tags: anti-virus, banking, BitDefender, Bogdan Botezatu, Citadel, CNME
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Security Researchers From Group-IB Have Uncovered a Cyberfraud Operation
May 17, 2013Security researchers from Russian cybercrime investigations firm Group-IB have uncovered a cyberfraud operation that uses specialized financial malware to target the customers of several major Australian banks. Over 150,000 computers, ...
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A New Variant of Gozi Banking Trojan Program That Infects a Computer's Master Boot Record
Apr 23, 2013Researchers from security firm Trusteer have found a new variant of the Gozi banking Trojan program that infects a computer's Master Boot Record (MBR) in order to achieve persistence. The Master Boot Record (MBR) is a boot sector that ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
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Financial Malware Authors Are Trying to Evade New Online Banking Security Systems
Feb 18, 2013Financial malware authors are trying to evade new online banking security systems by returning to more traditional phishing-like credential stealing techniques, according to researchers from security firm Trusteer. Most financial Trojan ...
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Financial Malware Authors Are Returning to Traditional Techniques
Feb 16, 2013Financial malware authors are returning to traditional, phishing-like, credential-stealing techniques in order to evade detection, according to researchers from security firm Trusteer. Most financial Trojan programs used by cybercriminals ...
Tags: Financial malware, credential-stealing techniques, detection
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Major Malware Trend Will Be The Appearance of More Stuxnet and Flame-Style 'Cyber Weapons'
Feb 6, 2013This year's major malware trend will be the appearance of more Stuxnet and Flame-style ‘cyber weapons', internet security firm AVG's CTO, Yuval Ben-Itzhak, has revealed to Computing. "Stuxnet and Flame have already happened, and ...
Tags: Stuxnet, Flame-Like Malware Attacks, Computer Products
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Configurations of The Shylock Financial Malware Inject Attacker-Controlled Phone Numbers
Dec 21, 2012New configurations of the Shylock financial malware inject attacker-controlled phone numbers into the contact pages of online banking websites, according to security researchers from antivirus vendor Symantec. By doing this, the attackers ...
Tags: Shylock financial malware, phone numbers, contact pages
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Hackers Are Distributing Rogue Email Notifications About Changes in Microsoft's Services
Sep 3, 2012Hackers are distributing rogue email notifications about changes in Microsoft's Services Agreement to trick people into visiting malicious pages that use a recently circulated Java exploit to infect their computers with malware. "We're ...
Tags: Malware, Vulnerabilitie, rogue email notification, malicious email
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Malware Would Make It Easier for Anti-Virus Software to Detect
Aug 31, 2012Malware is able to infect other malware and in some cases make it easier for anti-virus software to detect,an incident response investigation by data-security firm Trustwave Spiderslabs has discovered. The research looked at two pieces of ...
Tags: malware, data security, Trustwave Spiderslabs, Trojan, virus
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Flame Has Been Uncovered by Anti-Virus Software Vendor Kaspersky Labs
Aug 9, 2012A new virus potentially from the same group that developed Stuxnet, Duqu and Flame has been uncovered by anti-virus software vendor Kaspersky Labs. Called 'Gauss', the malware 'spies' on financial transactions, according to the company, ...
Tags: Kaspersky Labs, Financial, Malware