Zeus Trojan popular target for MasterCard and Visa security

Zeus Trojan banks are now using a new ploy to appear to be fake “MasterCard ® SecureCode ™ security” or “Verified by Visa” program on infected computers. According to security researchers have recently found that the Trojan attacks banking customers to show a false “Verified by Visa” registration screen or MasterCard SecureCode counterpart. It is attracting customers with shares in the online registration fraud that ultimately expose their sensitive financial information to cyber criminals. In a comment on the matter, Mickey Boodaei, President of Trustees, said that when the customer record in the bank, shows that the user must register with Verified by Visa “for it was now regulated. This seemed to notice in the software specially developed for use by banks and their customers to prevent malicious code, according to Network World, 14 July 2010. Boodaei added that this new attack all the wrong Verified by Visa and MasterCard SecureCode are intended to deceive banking clients for your personal verification number, personal identification, credit and debit card numbers and other details can be traced easily. Zeus botnets are used by criminal organizations to infect computers. After infecting computers, the wait for the minutes of the victim in the list of specific banks or financial institutions. Then use various tricks to steal personal information and implement illegal transfers of funds. Zeus botnets has become one of the most dangerous botnets in history, because it was used to make many specific crimes. This is also a network of bots to make it easier for attackers to commit crimes. Zeus was initially developed for to target web references for financial organizations, but now also can be configured to look for evidence of brokerage firms, 401K and other categories of Web pages, social networking and shopping sites. In addition, stealing trojan credentials and sends the data back to controllers via the botnet. Subsequent offenders access accounts and transfer money via ACH transaction accounts of money mules. Zeus was distributed live load in different ways, and method of operation depends mainly on the version of Zeus and the choices made by the attacker.