Customer drill, Zeus Trojan Joined SpyEye

Mergers usually means bringing together the strengths. Well, if the merger was botnets, dangerous right? I could have malware attacks increasingly powerful. And here's what happened.

The makers of trojans and SpyEye Zeus, according to security researchers, have been fused into one large and powerful botnets, which are capable of attacking the owners of bank accounts.

Zeus targeting bank accounts. He operates in stealth and highly sophisticated techniques for customers are not aware and convinced that his account is safe. The opposite pattern of Trojans that target the game to steal passwords by using social engineering methods. Regional distribution and accounts which give way because of this malware is spreading in many countries.

While SpyEye work with stealth mode, invisible in the task manager and other user-mode applications. According to the novirusthanks.org, a private institution based IT service provider in Italy, SpyEye able to hide registry keys and files it from searches conducted on a regular basis by the Explorer. Malware can capture the incoming data to the Web form and take the money using a stolen credit card.

Beyond that there are two variants of Zeus other, more dangerous, namely Feodo and Ares. Feodo able to send a message that attacks more than a dozen banks, to transfer some money out of the account owner and manipulate the browser to keep its balance sheet shows the beginning to the owners of these accounts. While Ares is claimed capable of the same author with Zeus and SpyEye.

Fortunately the impact of Zeus in Indonesia have not seen. "Online banking is much helped by the use of one-time tokens as used by some banks, so that when a steal user names and passwords are not enough to conduct online transactions, because they have to enter a key of the token is", commented Yudhi (Technical Consultant, ESET Indonesia) .

To be safe from malware attacks, customers are advised to use computers with operating systems and browsers in patch regularly and up to date and enable the firewall.