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Pierluigi Paganini March 09, 2015

Spam campaign spreads Dridex Trojan via Macros in XML Files

Experts at Trustwave have discovered a spam campaign composed of several hundred messages trying to serve Dridex trojan though xml documents. Early 2015 security experts discovered a variant of banking malware dubbed Dridex that was spread through a phishing campaign using Microsoft Excel documents embedding malicious macro to infect victims’ machines. The Dridex malware implements features […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 25, 2015

A new strain of banking trojan VAWTRAK uses Macros and abuses Windows PowerShell

Security experts at TrendMicro observed significant improvements in VAWTRAK banking trojan which couples use malicious macros and Windows PowerShell. Early 2015 the Microsoft Malware Protection Center (MMPC) issued an alert about a surge in the infections of malware using macros to spread their malicious code. The experts MMPC have observed a significant increase in enable-macros […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 08, 2015

New DYRE banking malware in the wild

The experts at TrendMicro detected a new variant of the DYRE /Dyreza banking malware with new propagation and evasion techniques. Researchers at Trend Micro have identified a new strain of the Dyre (Dyreza) financial malware (Dyreza), which is targeting a larger number of banks. The new variant of Dyre implements some sophisticated propagation and evasion techniques. According to Trend Micro this […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 07, 2015

Fake WhatsApp for Web offered in the wild

Cybercriminals are offering worldwide a fake WhatsApp for Web in spam campaign with the intent to serve banking malware and run other kinds of scams. Recently WhatsApp launched its web service that could be used by using Google Chrome and allows users to access all the conversations and messages from the mobile device. “Our web client is […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 22, 2014

Chthonic, a new strain of ZeuS trojan hits 150 banks worldwide

A new strain of Zeus Trojan dubbed Chthonic has been discovered in the wild targeting more than 150 banks and 20 payment systems mainly in Europe. Experts believe they have seen everything about the Zeus trojan, P2P versions, versions that infect SaaS, agents that exploit the Tor network or that recruit money mules … then […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 16, 2014

Citadel Trojan targets energy industry in Middle East

Experts at IBM Trusteer security firms have discovered a massively distributed Citadel trojan targets Middle Eastern Petrochemical companies. Researchers at IBM Trusteer have recently discovered targeted cyber attacks using a variant of the popular Citadel trojan on several Middle Eastern petrochemical companies. The Citadel Trojan is a malware designed to steal personal information, including banking and […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 03, 2014

A new Citadel trojan variant includes different remote management tools to maintain persistence on victims PC

Experts at IBM discovered a new variant of Citadel banking malware which includes different remote management tools to maintain persistence on victims’ PC. Researchers at IBM discovered a new variant of the Citadel banking malware which includes a new interesting feature that allows attackers to maintain persistence in the victim’s machine through remote management tools. Citadel is directly […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 03, 2014

Geodo, the banking trojan with email self-spreading feature

Security researchers from Seculert firm have discovered a variant of the Cridex banking worm, dubbed Geodo, which spreads itself through email. In the last months a significant number of banking trojans have been proposed by cyber criminal ecosystem, from EMOTET to Dyreza, criminals have used a wide casuistry of techniques to deceive bank customers. The primary purpose of the […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 25, 2014

Luuuk Campaign Steals €500K from an European bank in one week

Security experts at Kasperky Lab has uncovered the Luuuk banking fraud campaign which stolen half a million euros in a single week from a single bank. Experts at Kaspersky Labs discovered new banking Trojan dubbed Luuuk which hit the customers of a single European financial institution. In one week, Luuuk trojan targeted a single European bank, not […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 24, 2014

Top website Askmen hacked and used to serve a banking trojan

Askmen.com, one of the most popular websites on the Internet (Top 1000 Alexa), is compromised to sever the banking trojan Caphaw. Security experts at Websense have discovered that cyber criminals have compromised the popular website AskMen.com and they used it to serve malware. The attackers deployed several exploits to compromise the visitors, and if successful, the victim […]

banking trojan

Spam campaign spreads Dridex Trojan via Macros in XML Files

A new strain of banking trojan VAWTRAK uses Macros and abuses Windows PowerShell

New DYRE banking malware in the wild

Fake WhatsApp for Web offered in the wild

Chthonic, a new strain of ZeuS trojan hits 150 banks worldwide

Citadel Trojan targets energy industry in Middle East

A new Citadel trojan variant includes different remote management tools to maintain persistence on victims PC

Geodo, the banking trojan with email self-spreading feature

Luuuk Campaign Steals €500K from an European bank in one week

Top website Askmen hacked and used to serve a banking trojan

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