The group impersonated tax authorities to dupe victims into handing over their account details. 20 suspected fraudsters have been arrested in connection with a banking fraud scheme which resulted in the loss of over a million euros. On Thursday, Europol said that the arrests are the result of a two-year investigation between the agency, the Romanian National […]
As per discovery of security researchers, the Trickbot malware has been updated with you capabilities to evade detection and lock victim’s computers. The malware targets customers of major banks. According to a blog post by researchers at Webroot, the updated Trickbot has “continually undergone updates and changes in attempts to stay one step ahead of […]
A travel website Orbitz.com owned by Expedia Inc. has suffered a massive data breach in which personal and financial details of over 800,000 registered customers may have been stolen by unknown hackers. In a statement, the company said that the breach was identified on March 1st, 2018 after an in-depth investigation conducted by information security training researchers […]
Orbitz.com, a Chicago, Illinois based popular travel website owned by Expedia Inc. has suffered a massive data breach in which personal and financial details of over 800,000 registered customers may have been stolen by unknown hackers. In a statement to media, the company said that the breach was identified on March 1st, 2018 after an in-depth investigation […]
The Fakebank malware comes back, with its new Fakebank malware variant that intercepts the Android users’ banking incoming and outgoing calls. Attackers distributed the app through third-party Android markets and social media websites. Security researchers from Symantec identified the malicious behavior of the apps infected with Android.Fakebank that intercepts the calls made by the users […]
There are 42 cheap Android models currently infected with Triada banking trojan stealing data and intercepting chats from targeted devices. The IT security researchers at Russia-based anti-virus firm Dr.Web have identified 42 low-cost Android devices infected with a dangerous banking trojan that was discovered by the firm in July 2017. The malware aims at stealing personal […]
Hackers are becoming persistent in phishing scams against banking and cryptocurrency exchanges since they are lucrative targets. In the last couple of years, hackers have tricked several unsuspecting users and stole millions with tricky and sophisticated phishing scams. Now, the IT security researchers at Comodo Labs have discovered a new phishing scam targeting SWIFT financial messaging service. […]
A new Android banking Trojan identified targeting more that 232 mobile banking apps and major Indian banks mobile app. The malware detected by Quick Heal as Android.banker.A2f8a. It is distributed through third-party stores via a fake flash player app and through the play store. It’s targeting Banking apps,Crypto currency apps and other financial apps that […]
Dreambot banking Trojan which is a variant of Ursnif spreading via resume themed email, it is one of the most active banking trojans.Its activity on infected computers is very hard to detect at the network level and it communicates over Tor and Peer-to-peer. It used to specifically target for financial organizations such as corporate and […]
Like good old Microsoft Office Macros, Compiled HTML (CHM) Help files have been utilized by malware authors for more than a decade to sneak malicious downloader code into files making them harder to detect. CHMs are a Microsoft proprietary online help file that consist of a collection of HTML pages compiled into a single compressed […]
Another set of banking Trojans has found its way past Google Play’s security mechanisms, this time targeting a number of Polish banks. The malware managed to sneak into Google Play disguised as seemingly legitimate apps “Crypto Monitor”, a cryptocurrency price tracking app, and “StorySaver”, a third-party tool for downloading stories from Instagram. Besides delivering the […]
Man In The Middle Attack Over SSL A group of security researchers found a critical man in the middle attack implementation gap in the main mobile banking applications that left the banking powers of millions of users vulnerable to hackers. The vulnerability was discovered by security groups investigators and privacy at the University of Birmingham, […]
The flaw has been discovered by security researchers from the University of Birmingham, who tested hundreds of various banking applications and discovered that many of them were affected by a security flaw, leaving their clients vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks. Apps from major financial organizations, including NatWest, Bank of America Health and HSBC, all shared the […]
A flaw in certificate pinning exposed customers of a number of high-profile banks to man-in-the-middle attacks on both iOS and Android devices. A vulnerability in the mobile apps of major banks could have allowed attackers to steal customers’ credentials including usernames, passwords, and pin codes, according to researchers. The flaw was found in apps by […]
Two new campaigns using a malicious dropper to inject bankbot Banking Malware via play store apps and campaigns are dropping two different types of Banking Trojan. This Bankbot Trojan distribution has been analyzed through one of a Playstore application called Tornado FlashLight. Bankbot Malware Basically considering as too Risky one when its behavioral Intelligence Mimics as […]
A new dubbed Banking Trojan “Gozi” discovered that is capable of abusing windows users and stealing bank information from victims computer which has some advanced multi-component malicious programs future. Gozi Banking Trojan Discovered Trojan.Gozi.64,which is used the same source code of the previous version of this malware and also added some advanced future that can infect […]
At the heart of the regulation is the requirement for banks to allow licensed third-party providers (TPPs) of financial services to access securely their customer-account data, as long as the customer has given their prior consent.
For a user, it can be difficult to figure out whether an app is malicious. First off it is always good only to install applications from the Google Play store, since most malware is still mainly spread through alternative stores.
In a joint research, IT security researchers at Avast, ESET, and SfyLabs have discovered yet another malware on Google Play Store hiding behind utility applications. With a history of infecting apps on Play Store, the malware identified by researchers is BankBot, a banking trojan that keeps coming back and Google just cannot get rid of it […]
Security researchers have discovered a new and sophisticated form of malware based on the notorious terdot banking trojan that steals more than bank account information. Terdot nickname, the Trojan Banking has been around since the mid-2016 years and was originally developed as a proxy to perform Man-in-the-Middle (MITM) attacks, stealing navigation information such as the […]
The IT security researchers at Bitdefender have discovered a banking malware that apparently has been developed after keeping the dangerous Zeus trojan in mind. Dubbed Terdot by researchers the trojan was first identified in June 2016. It is capable of injecting visited web pages with HTML code to conduct man-in-the-middle (MitM) attacks and steal banking data including credit card […]