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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Security experts at CSIS in Denmark have discovered a new piece of banking malware, dubbed Dyreza, which implements browser hooking to defeat SSL. Dyreza is the name of a new banking Trojan which is targeting numerous financial institutions, including Bank of America, Citibank, Natwest, RBS and Ulsterbank. Dyreza captured the attention of security researchers due the technique it […]
Security experts at Kaspersky Lab have discovered a new banking trojan, dubbed Banker.AndroidOS.Basti.a, hidden in a fake WeChat application. Cyber criminals are abusing of the brand WeChat, the popular mobile application designed by Chinese company Tencent, to arrange a malware campaign which hit Chinese users. Experts at Kaspersky Lab have discovered that cybercriminals are using an […]
Security experts at ESET detected a new variant of iBanking Trojan offered in the underground that exploits Facebook platform as vector of infection. iBanking is the name of a mobile banking Trojan app distributed through HTML injection attacks on banking sites. iBanking deceives victims impersonating itself as a  ‘Security App‘ for Android, we have spoken about it  early 2014 […]