banking malware

January 18, 2018

THREAT RESEARCH

The Many Tentacles of the Necurs Botnet

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This post was written by Jaeson Schultz. Introduction Over the past five years the Necurs botnet has established itself as the largest purveyor of spam worldwide. Necurs is responsible for emailing massive amounts of banking malware, ransomware, dating spam, pump-n-dump stock scams, work from home schemes, and even cryptocurrency wallet credential phishing. Necurs sends so much […]

January 9, 2014

SECURITY

Fake German Bill Spam Campaign Spreads Malware

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Update 2014-01-10: This malicious campaign has expanded to include emails that masquerade as bills from NTTCable and from VolksbankU Update 2014-01-21: We’ve updated the chart to include the Vodafon emails and latest URL activity English language has emerged as the language of choice for international commerce. Since people throughout the world are used to receiving English […]

December 2, 2013

SECURITY

“Feliz Natal” – Bank Theft by Proxy.

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Proxy auto-config or PAC files are commonly used by IT departments to update browser settings so that internet traffic passes through the corporate web gateway. The ability to redirect web traffic to malicious proxy servers is particularly attractive for malicious actors since it gives them a method of intercepting and modifying traffic to and from […]