Evgeniy Mikhailovich Bogachev, using the nicknames “lucky12345” and “slavik,” is allegedly involved in a wide-ranging racketeering enterprise that installed malicious software known as “Zeus” on victims’ computers, according to the FBI. The well-known banking Trojan was used to capture bank account numbers, passwords, personal identification numbers, and other information to log into online banking accounts. […]
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 […]
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 […]
Latest Comments