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Researchers have seen a new variant of the IcedID banking trojan sliding in via two new spam campaigns. ZIP files full of the malware - or links to such ZIP files - the new twist on the old banking trojan is a tweaked downloader, which the threat actors moved from the initial x86 version to the latest: an x86-64 version.
Amid the COVID-19 crisis, the global market for biometrics for banking and financial services estimated at $4.4 billion in the year 2020, is projected to reach a revised size of $8.9 billion by 2026, growing at a CAGR of 12.8% over the analysis period, according to Global Industry Analysts. This segment currently accounts for a 22.8% share of the global biometrics for banking and financial services market.
The U.S. Department of Justice on Friday charged a Latvian woman for her alleged role as a programmer in a cybercrime gang that helped develop TrickBot malware. Since its origin as a banking Trojan in late 2015, TrickBot has evolved into a "Crimeware-as-a-service" capable of pilfering valuable personal and financial information and even dropping ransomware and post-exploitation toolkits on compromised devices, in addition to recruiting them into a family of bots.
While enterprises stagger under sustained ransomware attacks, Android users are increasingly being targeted by banking malware, with Slovakian infosec firm ESET reckoning it had seen a 159 per cent increase in such malicious software over the last few months. Tongue in cheek, the firm added: "It is interesting to see a real-life example of what can cause Android users to suddenly become interested in cybersecurity protection!".
As the post-pandemic economy roars back to life, cybercriminals are using a new whirlwind of transactions as cover to launch an extraordinary number of bank fraud attacks. In just the past quarter, the number of attacks on banks ballooned by 159 percent.
A banking trojan named Bizarro that originates from Brazil has crossed the borders and started to target customers of 70 banks in Europe and South America. Bizarro is under constant development as its author keeps expanding the list of supporting banks and they modify it to improve anti-analysis protections.
Bizarro is a new banking trojan that is stealing financial information and crypto wallets. The program can be delivered in a couple of ways - either via malicious links contained within spam emails, or through a trojanized app.
A financially motivated cybercrime gang has unleashed a previously undocumented banking trojan, which can steal credentials from customers of 70 banks located in various European and South American countries. The campaign consists of multiple moving parts, chief among them being the ability to trick users into entering two-factor authentication codes in fake pop-up windows that are then sent to the attackers, as well as its reliance on social engineering lures to convince visitors of banking websites into downloading a malicious smartphone app.
A never-before-documented Brazilian banking trojan, dubbed Bizarro, is targeting customers of 70 banks scattered throughout Europe and South America, researchers said. Once installed, it kills all running browser processes to terminate any existing sessions with online banking websites - so, when a user initiates a mobile banking session, they have to sign back in, allowing the malware to harvest the details.
Cybersecurity researchers on Monday disclosed a new Android trojan that hijacks users' credentials and SMS messages to facilitate fraudulent activities against banks in Spain, Germany, Italy, Belgium, and the Netherlands. Called "TeaBot", the malware is said to be in its early stages of development, with malicious attacks targeting financial apps commencing in late March 2021, followed by a rash of infections in the first week of May against Belgium and Netherlands banks.