Authorities from six European countries have taken down a major cybercriminal group in Ukraine suspected of developing, exploiting and distributing well-known banking Trojans Zeus and SpyEye, according to Europol. Police arrested five suspects between June 18 and 19. The cybercriminals used malware to attack online banking systems in Europe and elsewhere, adapting their sophisticated banking […]
It was around 2007 when we first encountered the ‘Win32/ZeusBot Trojan Horse’, AKA ‘ZBot’.The first versions of the malware was used against the U.S. Department of Transportation, mainly in order to steal information such as various passwords.Since then, multiple variants have been released, adding more and more functionalities and ‘bad’ stuff with every update, mainly […]
We recently came across a compromised website pushing out a payload that belongs to the Pushdo botnet, a botnet reportedly controlled by a well-funded Eastern European Cybercrime group. This botnet has often been closely associated with the Cutwail spam botnet. In the past, the Cutwail group would spam out payloads for the Pushdo botnet, which […]
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