Zeus

Pierluigi Paganini November 17, 2022
Tank, the leader of the Zeus cybercrime gang, was arrested by the Swiss police

A suspected leader of the Zeus cybercrime gang, Vyacheslav Igorevich Penchukov (aka Tank), was arrested by Swiss police. Swiss police last month arrested in Geneva Vyacheslav Igorevich Penchukov (40), also known as Tank, which is one of the leaders of the JabberZeus cybercrime group. “Vyacheslav “Tank” Penchukov, the accused 40-year-old Ukrainian leader of a prolific cybercriminal […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 22, 2017
A Russian man involved in the development and maintenance of Citadel was sentenced to five years in prison

The Russian hacker Mark Vartanyan was sentenced to five years in prison for his involvement in the development and maintenance of the Citadel botnets. It’s a terrific moment for cyber criminals, law enforcement worldwide continues their fight against illegal activities online and the recent shut down of AlphaBay and Hansa black markets demonstrate it. The news of […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 26, 2015
Sphinx, a new variant of Zeus available for sale in the underground

A new variant of the popular Zeus banking trojan dubbed was Sphinx is appeared for sale on the black market, it operates entirely through the Tor network. A few days ago a new variant of the popular Zeus banking trojan was offered for sale on the black market, its name is Sphinx. Sphinx code is […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 27, 2015
Europol arrested members of a gang behind Zeus And SpyEye

The law enforcement agencies from six European countries coordinated by the Europol have arrested members of a Ukrainian ring behind Zeus and SpyEye botnets. The law enforcement agencies from six European countries have dealt a serious blow to the organized crime by taking down a Ukrainian ring suspected of developing managing the popular Zeus and […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 02, 2015
New Rombertik Sample has originated in Nigeria

ThreatConnect has conducted further investigations on the Rombertik malware and traced a malicious sample they analyzed to a Nigeria-based man. Lately Rombertik have been making the headlines of security related news, I wrote on SecurityAffairs about the malware a few weeks ago, last update from security researchers at ThreatConnect is that a new analysis traced […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 30, 2015
News Zeus shows significant a evolution in the criminal ecosystem

Researchers at SentinelOne have discovered a strain of the Zeus malware that includes a very sophisticated control panel and evasion techniques. Malware researchers at SentinelOne  have spotted a new Zeus variant that was used to target major Canadian banks, including the National Bank of Canada, the Bank of Montreal and the Royal Bank of Canada. […]

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 September 11, 2014
Dyre Zeus variant malware used for corporate espionage

Security experts warn Dyre malware is being used by cyber criminals for corporate espionage instead harvest banking credentials. Dyre is the name of a new variant of the immortal Zeus banking trojan worries cyber security experts, this new strain doesn’t limit its stealing activity to user’s banking credentials, but search for customer information. Dyre has been detected […]

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 […]