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Date: December 02, 2013 at 18:20:09
From: kay.so.or, [DNS_Address]
Subject: 'Neverquest' trojan threatens online banking users |
URL: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9244374/_Neverquest_trojan_threatens_online_banking_users |
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not sure this is the right place to put this but here is a little bit
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IDG News Service - A new Trojan program that targets users of online financial services has the potential to spread very quickly over the next few months, security researchers warn.
The malware was first advertised on a private cybercrime forum in July, according to malware researchers from Kaspersky Lab who dubbed it Trojan-Banker.Win32/64.Neverquest.
"By mid-November Kaspersky Lab had recorded several thousand attempted Neverquest infections all around the world," said Sergey Golovanov, malware researcher at Kaspersky Lab, Tuesday in a blog post. "This threat is relatively new, and cybercriminals still aren't using it to its full capacity. In light of Neverquest's self-replication capabilities, the number of users attacked could increase considerably over a short period of time."
Neverquest has most of the features found in other financial malware. It can modify the content of websites opened inside Internet Explorer or Firefox and inject rogue forms into them, it can steal the username and passwords entered by victims on those websites and allow attackers to control infected computers remotely using VNC (Virtual Network Computing).
However, this Trojan program also has some features that make it stand out.
Its default configuration defines 28 targeted websites that belong to large international banks as well as popular online payment services. However, in addition to these predefined sites, the malware identifies Web pages visited by victims that contain certain keywords such as balance, checking account and account summary, and sends their content back to the attackers.
the rest of the article at the link...
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Date: December 23, 2013 at 02:21:38
From: Eve i n FL, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: 'Neverquest' trojan threatens online banking users |
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Right place, heard of it happening to a few already.
Don't get why folks take time to do such things...unless it if to access
data for monetary use. Seems a lot of it is not always the case.
I tried to tell the manager at the bank I saw it occur on computer of
someone and the same bank, just shrugged and said I never heard o fit.
Doh. So much info even the ones attacked never receive it yet the others
outside their organization know more than they do about what is going
on.
~Eve
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