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Police arrest 19 Zeus online fraud suspects

...arrested in London on Tuesday morning, are suspected of using the Zeus data-stealing Trojan to capture login details and gain access to online bank... Read more

29 September, 2010 by Tom Espiner

Fake White House e-card delivers data-stealing Zeus

...seemingly innocuous Christmas e-card from the White House carried a Zeus data-stealing Trojan, which targeted PDFs, Microsoft Word and Excel documents Read more

6 January, 2011 by Elinor Mills

Data-stealing 'Mumba' botnet hits 55,000 systems

...used the botnet to host phishing sites, store collected data and spread data-stealing malware, according to the report. AVG's researchers found that the... Read more

3 August, 2010 by Tom Espiner

UK banking customers targeted by data-stealing Trojan

Botnets are being deployed by criminals to put the Zeus Trojan on systems used by the customers of all of the major UK banks, according to security company Trusteer Read more

2 July, 2010 by Tom Espiner

Flashback malware infects 600,000 Macs

...antivirus company. More than half a million Macs are infected with the data-stealing Flashback Trojan, according to new analysis. Image credit: Dr Web The... Read more

5 April, 2012 by Steven Musil

Geinimi Trojan targets Android devices

A data-stealing Trojan affecting Android devices has emerged in China. The Geinimi Trojan... Read more

31 December, 2010

Banking Trojan breaks captcha to spread bot

The Cridex data-stealing Trojan is using spammer techniques to break captcha challenges to open... Read more

31 January, 2012 by Tom Espiner

Zeus attack nets £675,000 from UK bank customers

...3,000 each to criminals who used a variant of the Zeus data-stealing Trojan to infect Windows systems, Macs and even Wii consoles, according... Read more

11 August, 2010 by Tom Espiner

Microsoft patches 'Sons of Duqu' flaws

...MS12-034, addressed multiple Microsoft products that were vulnerable to the Duqu data-stealing malware, Qualys chief technology officer Wolfgang Kandek said in a statement... Read more

9 May, 2012

Anonymous supporters targeted in Zeus attack

...of Slowloris, and infect would-be Anonymous DoS attackers with Zeus, a data-stealing banking Trojan. "An attacker took a popular PasteBin guide, used by... Read more

5 March, 2012

William Hague: 'Online crime is growing exponentially'

...an earlier revelation that Foreign Office staff had been targeted by a data stealing trojan and he used his conference speech to outline the wider... Read more

1 November, 2011 by Nick Heath
McAfee: Why Duqu is a big deal

McAfee: Why Duqu is a big deal

...McAfee is among the security companies raising an alarm about Duqu, a data-stealing Trojan that looks to pose as great a threat to businesses... Read more

26 October, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Symantec warns of Stuxnet-style Duqu Trojan

...blog post.For more on this ZDNet UK-selected story, see New data-stealing Trojan could be Stuxnet version 2.0 on CNET News. Get... Read more

19 October, 2011 by Elinor Mills

Akamai: Cyber spies are hiding behind Anonymous

...Akamai security executive. Nations are launching distributed denial of service (DDoS), and data-stealing attacks against other states for espionage purposes, and claiming to be... Read more

14 October, 2011

Microsoft tweaks antivirus after Chrome blocking

...for Zeus in Microsoft security software, given that Zeus is an active data-stealing Trojan. Some IT teams reacted promptly to the false identification of... Read more

3 October, 2011 by Tom Espiner

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