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ZeuS
Sunday, February 07, 2010
Author: Richard S. Westmoreland
Permalink: zeus-botnet-summary
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ZeuS is a nasty piece of malware to be compromised with.
This is a generic summary of ZeuS and its origins:
Zeus (also known as Zbot, Kneber, PRG, NTOS, Wsnpoem and Gorhax) is a crimeware kit designed to steal banking information and credentials through various means. The Zeus trojan is spread mainly through drive-by downloads and phishing schemes. First identified in July 2007 when it was used to steal information from the United States Department of Transportation, it became more widespread in March 2009. In June 2009, security company Prevx discovered that Zeus had compromised over 74,000 FTP accounts on websites of such companies as the Bank of America, NASA, Monster, ABC, Oracle, Cisco, Amazon, and BusinessWeek.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeus_%28trojan_horse%29
This trojan has many versions, botnets (each owned by different groups), and vectors of attack. It started out as a Do-It-Yourself kit, purchased and modified with its own features. Some of the more common variants are easier to recognize, but some compromises are very stealthy targeted attacks. The polymorphic nature of ZeuS can be seen over the years:
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