A mid-level organiser of an international online bank theft ring that relied on the Zeus Trojan faces up to 45 years in prison when he is sentenced early next year, after pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit bank fraud and possession of false IDs. Nikolay Garifulin, 27, of Volgograd, Russia,…
Despite crackdown, Zeus bank-robbery malware still ‘alive and kicking’
Despite a widespread industry effort to disrupt and shut down the Zeus malware gang, Microsoft’s malicious software removal tool is still finding tens of thousands of machines infected with the notorious banker trojan every month. According to Microsoft, the tool is disinfecting the Zeus malware (also called Zbot) from between…
DeBank malware tool spots SpyEye, Zeus banking trojans
A Finnish penetration testing company has released a free tool it says can detect all variants of five major families of malicious software that steal online banking credentials. The tool, called Debank, was built by Finnish penetration testing company Fitsec, which has used the tool to scan its customers’ machines,…