Tag: Trojan
The Dridex authors frequently release updates such as new functions obfuscation and new configuration encoding to continue evading detection and mitigation techniques of security vendors. They have shifted the focus of their malware from targeting European financial institutions to new banking institutions in the United States. Evidently, the developers of the malware display great proficiency…
Read MoreIn May 2016, we detected a generic form grabber and IBAN (International Bank Account Number) swap script injection targeting financial institutions across the world. IBAN swapping is a technique fraudsters use to first obtain access to an account, then exchange a legitimate account number with the attacker’s destination mule account number before a funds transfer…
Read MoreRecently there have been several reports of a financial malware named TrickBot; this malware's code looks similar to Dyre. Source link lol
Read MoreTrickbot, the latest arrival to the banking malware scene and successor to the infamous Dyre botnet, is in constant flux, and its authors are continually adding new targets and functionality. F5 malware researchers have been monitoring Trickbot and have uncovered a new variant that substantially increases the number of German banks being targeted. Trickbot was…
Read MoreMalware that steals banking credentials is still one of today’s most lucrative cybercrime schemes. It’s not unusual for a banking Trojan to evolve over the years, and Ramnit is a perfect example. It was active for several years until it was disrupted in early 2015 by Europol working with several tech companies. It resurfaced in…
Read MoreFigure 1: CVE-2017-5638 campaign The exploit triggers the vulnerability via the Content-Type header value, which the attacker customized with shell commands to be executed if the server is vulnerable. In the first days of this campaign, shell commands were observed to infect the machine with the “PowerBot” malware, which is written in PERL, and uses…
Read MoreMarcher targets focused on European, Australian, and Latin American banks, along with PayPal, eBay, Facebook, WhatsApp, Viber, Gmail, and Yahoo—all in the month of March. Source link lol
Read MoreThe financial trojan TrickBot has been updating its campaigns and targets since F5 malware researchers started following it in September 2016. This is expected behavior because attackers need to continually update their targets and methods to evade detection. Previously, TrickBot, the successor to Dyre, targeted financial institutions in Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada. TrickBot’s May 2017…
Read MoreIt’s been another banner year for leakers. In May, Wikileaks released the CIA’s Vault7 cyberwarfare documentation,1 and the Shadow Brokers released NSA exploit information, including the Windows EternalBlue2 exploit. EternalBlue was quickly weaponized into the WannaCry ransomware that pummeled the Internet for days. The Petya/NotPetya ransomware hitting Eastern Europe is also reportedly using EternalBlue to infect machines.…
Read MoreFigure 6: Targets by Industry Notable Target Drops European banks have continually been a top target of TrickBot, and although there was growth in targets in that region, Europe stands out more in this configuration because Australia and New Zealand targets dropped off, thereby boosting Europe’s portion of the pie. There were no New Zealand…
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