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A new variant of the Zeus trojan is using the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) web service for its command-and-control center, according to IT management and software vendor CA. Attackers are pushing the latest Zeus, or Zbot, variant by using fake holiday greeting card spam messages that...
December 10, 2009
Brief
A new run of spam trying to push the dangerous Zeus, or Zbot, trojan began circulating Monday, Gary Warner, director of research in computer forensics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, said in a blog post. The latest campaign delivers emails claiming to come from the U.S....
November 23, 2009
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The insidious Zeus, or Zbot, trojan now is trying to infect users through spam that claims to come from MySpace, Gary Warner, director of research in computer forensics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, said in a blog post Monday. The messages falsely inform recipients that they...
November 09, 2009
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The latest Zeus malware campaign is taking the form of emails claiming to originate from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, according to a post Wednesday on the SANS Internet Storm Center. The messages contain a subject referencing the H1N1, or swine flu, vaccination program. If users...
December 02, 2009
News
The Zeus trojan is using a new tactic to infect users' computers, security researchers are warning.
November 30, 2009
News
A new iteration of Zeus, a password-stealing trojan, is victimizing users of AOL Instant Messenger (AIM), according to Webroot.
January 22, 2010
News
A new campaign of the password-stealing Zeus trojan is targeting workers from government and military departments in the United States and United Kingdom, according to security researchers at Websense. The trojan is being distributed through spoofed emails claiming to come from the U.S. National Intelligence Council. The bogus messages...
February 09, 2010
News
A wave of spam over the weekend, which appeared to come from Verizon Wireless, was instead propagating the information-stealing Zbot trojan.
November 16, 2009
News
The masterminds behind the Zeus trojan are continuing efforts to target corporate users with the hope of gaining access to business bank accounts.
October 15, 2009
News
The malevolent Zeus trojan, which aims to steal bank account credentials from infected computers, has taken a blow now that two people have been arrested in connection with its distribution.
November 18, 2009
News
Researchers at Trusteer credit the trojan's morphing and rootkit capabilities with keeping it in the wild.
September 16, 2009
News
Cybercriminals might be looking for a new home after their malicious server in the Cayman Islands was shut down Tuesday.
July 01, 2009
News
Two email ruses claiming to come from Facebook actually attempt to load a trojan on victim PCs.
October 29, 2009
News
A fake email notice from the IRS contains the pernicious Zeus information-stealing trojan.
September 29, 2009
News
A new outbreak of spam claims to be a critical update for Microsoft Outlook, but the message really aims to infect users with the information-stealing trojan ZBot, security firm Trend Micro warned Monday.
June 22, 2009
Brief
The Microsoft Office name is being leveraged by cybercriminals in two new campaigns meant to infect users' machines. Email security firm Red Condor on Thursday warned of a spear phishing run in which messages appear to be invitations for recipients to update their Microsoft Office Outlook Web Access settings. Following...
January 08, 2010
News
Eighty percent of computers that have been compromised are still infected after 30 days, and nearly 50 percent remain infected after 10 months, according to an analysis released Wednesday by Trend Micro.
September 16, 2009
News
A trojan has reportedly been uncovered that is harvesting FTP login data of major corporations, including the Bank of America, BBC, Amazon, Cisco, Monster.com, Symantec and McAfee.
June 26, 2009
Blog Post
Just how true is a Wall Street Journal report that Citigroup lost tens of millions of dollars to hackers? Let's put our conspiracy theory goggles on.
December 22, 2009
Blog Post
One of the great unintended consequences of my job, having covered the IT security space for nearly four years, is my great inability to accurately gauge the awareness that mainstream America has for cyber-risks.
December 31, 2009