More recently, after a weekend that everyone thinks to get ready again activity, Trend Micro, mobile and cloud security company in the world, has just discovered the activities of a gang of cyber hackers from Russia using SpyEye-Zeus trojan steals money U.S. citizens since January 2011 of $ 3.2 million or approximately U $ 17,000 per day.
During the six periods since January 2011, the Trend Micro discovered that the "Soldier" has infiltrated into various business institutions in America, such as banks, airports, research institutions, and even into the government and the U.S. military.
A total of 25 394 systems infected with the virus during 19 April and 29 June alone, 57% of which is Windows XP and 4500 victims to infect Windows 7. The majority of victims are in the U.S., his victim yet spread in 90 countries.
Trend Micro also noted that the theft of important data is the most widely taken from Facebook, Yahoo, and Google. But another page where the user data stolen on eBay, Amazon, PayPal and Skype.
SpyEye variant used in these operations are detected as TSPY_SPYEYE.EXEI.
Profiles virus has now changed dramatically - from a global pandemic into a sophisticated and targeted attacks. Recognizing that the technique is less effective past, now cybercriminals are constantly coming up with new techniques to trick users and infect. They continued to release a new threat variants, increasing the speed threat, and using the threat as a random attack, steal data through malware, and botnets.
One of their common practice today is to exploit information taken from social networking sites through attacks on these pages. They make money from here, and take advantage of zero-day vulnerabilities to execute unknown attacks
This incident was reminiscent of all countries, in order to continue raising awareness that security intelligence in information technology, cloud and mobile, is very important.
Sources:trend micro
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