The first month of this leap year did not offer any major surprises in terms of information security. However, Doctor Web’s anti-virus laboratory received samples of several new banking Trojan horses that turned out to be rather unusual. In addition, a new technique for distributing malicious links was discovered. Virus threats in January The file […]
This month, the Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT) targets two families: Win32/EyeStye and Win32/Poison. EyeStye (aka ‘SpyEye’) is a family of trojans that steals information, targeting authentication data used for online banking such as passwords and digital certificates. The method it employs is called “form grabbing” which involves the interception of webform data submitted to […]
A few days ago, we have notified you about malicious activities from the S.A.P.Z. botnet. And we provided evidence that this methodology of attack can be used to affect users of any Latin America bank, or any part of the world. Now the S.A.P.Z. gang, which may be Peruvian, has resorted to another strategy. It […]
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