Ryan Sherstobitoff is a McAfee Threat Researcher focusing on cyberfraud research and threat intelligence. Prior to joining McAfee, he was a threat researcher at Guardian Analytics, where he focused on tracking financial fraud for a number of mid-sized banks. Sherstobitoff was also Chief Corporate Evangelist at Panda Security, where he managed the U.S. strategic response for new and emerging threats. He is widely recognized as a security and cloud computing expert.
Zeus “banking” malware and its variants have been making headlines in recent months. One variant, the Citadel Trojan, has now taken the spotlight with the news of its withdrawal from the open crimeware market. Recently the author of Citadel, Aquabox, has been banned from a large online forum that sells malware and other services to Read more…
Tags: Citadel, Denmark, government, Japan, Poetry Group, Poland, trojan
Project Blitzkrieg, a current attack on US financial institutions, got a lot of media attention following a blog posting by RSA researchers who wrote they had discovered an operation run by an individual known as vorVzakone. RSA identified the malware as belonging to the Gozi family and labeled it Prinimalka. VorVzakone’s claim was met with Read more…
Tags: financial industry, Gozi, Prinimalka, VorVzakone
Just as we thought that automated transfer systems (ATS) used in SpyEye and Zeus malware families were becoming outdated and less innovative since the discovery of Operation High Roller earlier this year, we have discovered a newly emerging attack targeting the European SEPA payments network. In the past we have seen very rudimentary code (similar Read more…
Tags: ACH, ATS, Operation High Roller, SEPA
In June 2012, McAfee® Labs and Guardian Analytics released research on Operation High Roller that scratched the surface of a complex web of automated fraudulent transactions. In a follow-on study released today, we dig into and map out the details on the origins and actors. Placing the data in context shows how mature and creative Read more…
Tags: automated clearing house, banks, China, financial institutions, Guardian Analytics, Operation High Roller, Russia, San Jose, SpyEye, zeus
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