Trusteer Warns of Botnets Attacking UK Banks
By Gina on July 2, 2010 | Computer Security, malware, Zeus botnet, UK banks, botnet, Trusteer
Recently Trusteer reported about malwares that are created specially for exact countries. This time the company discovered about the botnets that try to attack UK banks.
The botnet that was identified by Trusteer is previously-undetected Silon.var2 and other one is longer-established Agent.DBJP. With these two Zeus-based botnets UK bank’s PCs were infected.
Silon.var2 now affects more computers based on UK than with Agent.DBJP. Silon.var2 targets 1 in every 500 PCs and with Agent.DBJP affecting 1 in every 5,000 UK-based PCs. These numbers are far higher than attacks in US.
There are many questions to consider but the one thing is clear that malware creators are trying to specify their attacks and country-based access is one of the top lists.
Trusteer CEO, Mickey Boodaei commented: „Regional malware is not unique to the UK. We’ve recently started analyzing financial malware in South Africa and identified targeted regional attacks as well, which are rarely seen outside that region. Other regions such as Germany for example also suffer from regional malware. The infamous Yaludle malware has been highly focused on the German market.“
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