Rising malware threat for banking credentials
AhnLab cautioned against increasing variations of SpyEye trojan and ZeuS bot that attempt to steal personal banking information all over the world. Lately, the AhnLab Security …
Zitmo Trojan masquerades as security app
Zeus-in-the-mobile (“Zitmo”) for Android users is back, pretending to be a security solution for the mobile operating platform. It masquerades as “Android …
Facebook warns its users infected with DNSChanger
As the date of the shutdown of the interim systems that allow computers infected by the DNSChanger Trojan to connect to the Internet draws near, Facebook has joined Google in …
Spying version of Iranian anti-censorship software found
A compromised variant of Simurgh – a stand-alone proxy software for Microsoft Windows that has been heavily used by Iranians to get around censorship since 2009, and is …
Tiny but deadly banking Trojan discovered
The discovery of a new banking Trojan by the researchers working for CSIS Security Group has proved that a piece of malware doesn’t have to be big and complex to get the …
FBI warns of joint threat by ransomware and banking Trojan
The combination of the Citadel banking Trojan and Reveton ransomware that Trusteer warned about at the beginning of May is apparently still targeting users. So much so, that …
DNS-changing Trojan leads to phishing banking sites
Latin American Internet users are constantly attacked by cyber crooks who aim to get their online banking credentials in order to perpetrate identity theft and banking fraud. …
New Android Trojan likely developed by arrested cyber crooks
The alleged authors of Foncy, a premium rate SMS Trojan that targeted users from a number of European Countries and Canada, have been arrested and indicted in February in …
Google begins notifying users infected with DNS Changer
As the date set for the final shutdown of the infrastructure that keeps computers infected with the DNSChanger Trojan connected to the Internet is approaching at a fast pace, …
Zeus Trojan variant comes with ransomware feature
The recent popularity of ransomware as a tactic for duping users into giving up their hard-earned cash has resulted in an unexpected malware combination. F-Secure researchers …
Trojan stealing money in German online banking scam
Trusteer came across a complex new criminal scheme involving the Tatanga Trojan that conducts an elaborate Man in the Browser (MitB) attack to bypass SMS based transaction …
Fake BBC website serves malware and a scam
Online scammers and malware peddlers know that the more afraid and desperate their targets are, the more likely it is that they will fall for their tactics, so their repeated …