Financial theft is one of the most lucrative forms of cybercrime. Malware authors continue to deliver sophisticated tools and techniques to unlock online bank accounts. Attackers design and develop botnets to perform financial fraud, targeting banks and other institutions for profit. These botnets traditionally have monitored victims’ Internet activities and intercepted banking transactions to extract Read more…
Tags: banking fraud, botnet, Citadel, financial institutions
I hope you have all had the same great start to the year as I have had, although I must say that since the beginning of 2013 my agenda has been incredibly packed. Time flies; we are already in February and I have just returned from a trip to Moscow where great things are happening; Read more…
Tags: 2013 threat predictions, Citadel, epo, Global Threat Intellgence, GTI, intel, McAfee, Security Connected, SIEM, trojan
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
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