Two new banks in the UK Malware Target

Security experts have identified two new types of malicious code that targets Trustee customers of banks in the UK. Security experts have demonstrated that the malware “fly under the radar” of viruses, steal credit card information is input from customers to fraud. The malicious software is known as an actor. DBJP and silo. var2. The detection rate silo. var2 in the United Kingdom is located in one of every five hundred systems, while the detection rate of agent-DBJP is one of five thousand computers. It has also found two Trustee Zeus botnets designed specifically for the UK. Even Zeus botnets is best known for their financial details stolen signs, it is the uniqueness of these botnets that they confine their networking equipment and only UK UK banks objectives. Therefore, these variants are less likely to be identified by your antivirus. According to security company to detect the degree of such malware is kept between zero and 20%. Trustee has estimated that cyber criminals attack involved the use spam lists only UK-centric. Infected sites to spread malicious code. This suggests a change in illicit financial activities must be carefully managed by financial institutions. Mickey Boodaei, CEO of Trust, has said that compared with popular games of malicious software (eg Ambler, Zeus and Torp fate of hundreds of businesses and banks around the world and studied of all security providers), regional representative malware kit. DBJP and silo. var2 are highly specific, as reported by Dark Reading 1 July 2010. In addition, the United Kingdom is not the only country to have suffered from these types of attacks. The security company has found similar activities in Germany and South Africa exclusively confined to these regions. Amit Klein, chief technology officer, Trust, explained that if a bank in a given region is a part of the malware with new, there is a 80% chance that other banks face similar attacks in the future, according to Webuser from July 1, 2010th Trust argues that the best way to deal with this problem for regional banks is a work in cooperation with each other and share information with antivirus companies.