banking trojan

Pierluigi Paganini January 21, 2016
Asacub Android Malware, the multiform threat

Asacub is a new Android threat that has been used by bad actors to infect thousands of users in Russia in a recent SMS spam campaign. According to the experts from Kaspersky Lab, the Trojan-Banker.AndroidOS.Asacub was first detected as a new spyware Trojan. The experts noticed that one of the C&C servers used by the Asacub Android malware (chugumshimusona[.]com) was also […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 15, 2016
Android banking malware SlemBunk continues to evolve

Experts at FireEye noticed a significant evolution of SlemBunk, a powerful Android Trojan is targeting bank users worldwide. In December security experts at FireEye first spotted the Android banking Trojan SlemBunk, a threat specifically designed to target mobile banking users. The trojan first variants were distributed as copies of legitimate bank apps through third-party websites. The SlemBunk Trojan […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 27, 2015
Dridex Botnets are still active and effective

The Dridex Banking Trojan has risen again despite the recent operation conducted by law enforcement on a global scale. Spam campaign relying on the Dridex malware continues to threaten banking users across the world despite the operations conducted by law enforcement on a global scale. We left Dridex malware spreading across the Europe, in particular targeting […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 15, 2015
Customers of Japanese banks targeted by the Brolux Trojan

Researchers at ESET have spotted a new strain of banking Trojan dubbed Brolux that is targeting online banking users in Japan. Once again customers of the Japanese banks have been targeted by a malware, after the recent campaigns based on Shifu, Tsukuba, and Neverquest, now its time for a new threat. According to the security firm ESET […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 15, 2015
US and UE, a joint effort against the Dridex Botnet

A joint effort of law enforcement agencies the US and EU and with the support of private cybersecurity firm aims to disrupt the activities of the Dridex botnet. Dridex malware is known to be the successor of another malware like Cridex, Feodo, Bugat, etc etc, and uses many techniques with the purpose of stealing users, […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 04, 2015
Bogus PayPal App used to spread a banking Trojan

Security experts at Trend Micro have uncovered a spam campaign spreading a bogus PayPal app to steal German users’ banking credentials. A spam campaign is targeting German Andoird users, the malicious emails impersonate PayPal trying to trick the recipient into downloading a bogus PayPal app update that hides a banking Trojan. “Mobile banking is now used by […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 02, 2015
The Dridex Banking Malware is risen, British attention

The Dridex Banking Malware is risen, security experts at Palo Alto intelligence discovered a still ongoing large phishing campaign. Once against the Dridex banking Trojan is in the headlines, this week security experts at Palo Alto intelligence discovered a still ongoing large phishing campaign. The phishing campaign is targeting victims mainly in the UK, the malicious messages […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 02, 2015
Shifu, a dangerous Banking Trojan is Attacking Japanese Banks

The Shifu Banking Trojan is a new sophisticated malware that has been used to target the customers of more than a dozen Japanese banks. Shifu is the name of a new banking trojan that has been around since at least April targeting Japanese banks and a number of European e-banking platforms. “Shifu currently targets 14 […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 26, 2015
Sphinx, a new variant of Zeus available for sale in the underground

A new variant of the popular Zeus banking trojan dubbed was Sphinx is appeared for sale on the black market, it operates entirely through the Tor network. A few days ago a new variant of the popular Zeus banking trojan was offered for sale on the black market, its name is Sphinx. Sphinx code is […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 11, 2015
VBE files on the rise in Brazil leading to Financial Fraud

Security experts at Kaspersky Lab recently observed a big wave of malicious VBE files targeting Brazilian users to distribute Financial Trojan. Recently security experts have seen old tricks rising from the dead (like for example word/excel macros attachment in e-mails) and malicious VBE files are being spread via email targeting Brazilian users. These VBE files […]