Posts Tagged ‘ZeuS’

A bank account-raiding worm, Ramnit has started spreading on Facebook, stealing login credentials as it creeps across the site, security researchers have revealed. Seculert’s research lab has discovered that Ramnit recently started targeting Facebook accounts with considerable success, stealing over 45,000 Facebook login credentials worldwide, mostly from people in the UK and France.

A new report from HostExploit, an independent group that monitors the level of relative malicious activity on hosting providers around the world, shows that HostDime, a provider based in Orlando, Fla., had the highest relative levels of malware and phishing and other malicious activity in the second quarter of 2011. The servers hosted by the company [...]

A new version of ZeuS-in-the-Mobile (ZitMo), malware which targets mTANs has been discovered by researchers at Kaspersky Labs. The mobile malware was discovered in the end of September 2010. Previous versions of ZitMo targeted Symbian, Windows Mobile and Blackberry. However, the latest version brings  ZeuS-in-the-Mobile to rapidly growing mobile platform, Google’s Android. “The first fact [...]

With over 90 million members, LinkedIn has turned into an ideal platform for cyber criminals to attack enterprise networks. Through LinkedIn, cyber criminals can build a profile of targeted enterprises. They can locate key people within the enterprise and target them with spam emails that would eventually place malware on their computer or steal their [...]

McAfee today released the McAfee Threats Report: First Quarter 2011. With six million unique samples of recorded malware, Q1 2011 was the most active first quarter in malware history. The report revealed many of the trends that had a significant impact on the threat landscape, such as the takedown of the Rustock botnet, which resulted in [...]

Center for Strategic and International Studies, CSIS has found that the complete source code for the ZeuS botnet crime kit is being distributed on several underground forums as well as through other channels. CSIS has also collected several addresses from where Zeus source code is being distributed in a compressed zip archive. The company says [...]

In a first of its kind report, Federal Bureau of Investigation, U.S. (FBI) has quantified the economic impact of Chinese hackers on U.S. businesses. According to a fraud alert from FBI, U.S. businesses have been taken for at least $11 million over the last year thanks to unauthorized wire transfers to China. Cybercriminals have been [...]