New Strain of Zeus Malware Puts Financial Services and Payment Processor Industries at High Risk for Cybercrime

ThreatMetrix, which is one of the rapidly growing service provider of solutions relating to the integrated cybercrime prevention has lately found about the ‘Zeus P2P Advancements and MitB Attck Vectors’. In its report the ThreatMetrix took under examination the samples and focused attack targets of this very new variant. The ThreatMetrix Lab works upon reporting malware that especially targets credit unions, payment providers and other financial institutions.

It has been found out that the new Zeus variant is changed in the manner it encrypts its configuration file. The new way makes it difficult for the detection routes to recognize the Trojan. In these changing times the cybercriminals are too evolving rapidly; they even surpass the best of cybercrime automatic detection routines. As per ThreatMetrix chief technology officer named Andreas Baumhof “The latest Zeus variant catches victims’ off-guard by waiting to attack until after a website’s login page appears to be functioning normally. After the victim logs in, the Zeus Trojan attempts to steal confidential information.”

The Zeus Trojan has its targets defined as all major credit card company websites. It works like this that when a customer login to an affected website, then an intermediate page tricks the victim so as to disclose all personal info to fraudsters. Same is the scenario with some of the major financial institutions all over the globe.

To combat this you must have a high level of security when you deal with high risk credit card processing. That will be the only way to run your business securely and benefit your customers as well.