In March a new type of financial attack on Android devices was found targeting customers of several banks in Europe. Dubbed FakeToken, one of the principal differences of this new threat–compared with previous Trojan bankers for Android such as Zitmo/Spitmo–was the fact that both authentication factors (Internet password and mTAN) were stolen directly from the Read more…
Tags: Android Malware, Cybercrime, faketoken, SpyEye, trojan banker, zeus
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
On April 16, we found a Pastebin entry selling the latest version of the infamous SpyEye botnet (Version 1.3.48) for a much lower price than we’ve seen elsewhere. (This botnet is mainly used to steal banking information.) The quote was just US$150 including three months hosting, after that it’s $15 per month. This version was Read more…
Based on the Android malware that we’ve seen so far, one of the principal motivations to develop and spread malware on Android is to gain financial profit. We often see deceptive applications that send SMS messages to premium-rate numbers without the user’s consent or that run man-in-the-middle attacks to forward SMS messages to an attacker Read more…
Tags: Android Malware, Android/FakeToken, banking fraud, SpyEye, zeus
SpyEye and Zeus are probably the most prevalent and active Trojan “banker” families seen in the wild. (Bankers steal bank passwords and other financial data.) At the beginning of the year there was a rumor about the “merger” of both toolkits into a new generation of banking Trojan. It is not clear yet whether leaked Zeus Read more…
Tags: Android, malware, Mobile, smartphones, SpyEye, trojan banker
In France, July and August are the holiday season. Like my compatriots, I abandoned my workplace for several weeks in the southern sun. But I have to confess it was not an absolute desertion. From time to time, I had a quick look into French hacktivist activities. To demonstrate that hackers and hacktivists never stop, Read more…
Tags: Anonymous Group, Hackers, Hacktivism, iframe, SpyEye
In our recent “2011 Threats Predictions” report, McAfee Labs foresaw that the recent merger of Zeus with SpyEye would produce more sophisticated bots, due to improvements in bypassing security mechanisms and law enforcement monitoring. Both Zeus and SpyEye were prevalent and dangerous malware separately; the combination of their functionality takes this threat to a new Read more…
Tags: Cybercrime, Data Protection, Endpoint Protection, global threat intelligence, malware, McAfee, SpyEye, zeus
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