New Bank Phisher Brings Added Functionality, Problems

February 23, 2011 – 4:23 pm

By Andrew Brandt I didn’t want to let too much time pass before I wrote about a new Zbot-like bank phishing Trojan variant that came across my desk last week. The keylogger started arriving the first week of February as an attachment to a spam email designed to look like it came from United Parcel [...]

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A Cave Monster from Hell Wants Your Financial Data

August 20, 2010 – 3:50 pm

By Andrew Brandt A novel and pretty sneaky Trojan designed to steal financial data appeared on our radar screen last week. The Trojan, once installed on a victim’s computer, rootkits itself to prevent detection, then watches the victim’s browser for any attempt to connect to the secured, HTTPS login page of several online banks. When [...]

By mguthrie09 | Posted in Online shopping threats, Passwords, phishing, Phishing Trojans, Threat Research, Trojans | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | Comments (5)

Lazy Phishers Just Email the Phishing Web Page to You, Now

October 26, 2009 – 7:44 pm

By Andrew Brandt It was a particularly busy weekend for spammers, especially the creepy, evil ones who are trying to steal information (as opposed to the merely scungy pill vendors and their ilk). Webroot’s Threat Research team has recently seen a glut of phishing messages which, like most, purport to come from banks and ask you to update [...]

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