Next-Generation Banking Malware Emerges After Zeus

Batblue writes "The rumored combination of two pieces of advanced online banking malware appears to be fully underway after several months of speculation. What appears to be a beta version of a piece of malware that has bits of both Zeus and SpyEye is now in circulation, albeit among just a few people, said Aviv Raff, CTO and cofounder of Seculert. Seculert has published screen shots of the new malware, which has two versions of a control panel used for managing infected computers. One of those control panels resembles one in Zeus, and the other resembles that in SpyEye. Both of the control panels are connected to the same back-end command-and-control server, he said."

Comments

Safest Banking

[Malnar]

Oh no! They're gonna get at the wad of money buried in the back yard! It may only earn the interest of worms, but at least its not funding wall street

Alternative link

[hellkyng]

Kreb's writeup is pretty good as well, not that anyone reads tfa.

http://krebsonsecurity.com/2011/02/revisiting-the-spyeyezeus-merger/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+KrebsOnSecurity+(Krebs+on+Security)

Comment from TFA

[beschra]

Thought this was worth including in /. "Question (and not a rhetorical one): Do you think that if the US Congress issued a Letter of Marque and Reprisal to a licensed and bonded cyber privateer, and tasked that privateer to loot the bad guys, that the bad guys would think twice before plying their trade? In other words, is there a deterrent value?"

Rule of Thumb

[Katsury]

I think it should be expected that there will always be something better, more efficient, and equally if not more spooky than the malware that we know about. The unknown stuff is the malware you should be worried about.

Re:Why don't computer users

[Anonymous Coward]

why does Microsoft even allow malware to be installed on Windows 7 in the first place?

Your stupidity astounds me.

Re:Use a Live USB

[denis-The-menace]

USB sticks with "physical read-write switch" don't exactly grow on trees.
As far as I know only Kanguru and Imation(aka 3M) make them and Imation's USB Sticks are slow. Kanguru Sticks are hard to come by.

Is there such a thing as an inline USB write protect switch?

Re:Banking malware - wha ?

[maxume]

It's just English. "Banking malware" is shorthand.