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Zeus banking malware nestles a crucial file in a photo |
February 18, 2014
A newly discovered variant of the notorious Zeus banking trojan is disguising a crucial configuration code in a digital photo, a technique known as steganography.Zeus is one of the most effective tools to steal online banking details, hijacking login details as a person accesses his account and masking secret transfers in the background.The variant, called ZeusVM, downloads a configuration file that contains the domains of banks that the malware is instructed to intervene in during a transaction, wrote Jerome Segura, a senior security researcher with Malwarebytes. He wrote the behavior was first noticed by a French security researcher who writes under the name Xylitol.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2098620/zeus-banking-malware-nestles-a-crucial-file-in-a-photo.html#tk.rss_all
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