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Sales of new antivirus fighting banking trojan Zeus are launchedSales of new antivirus fighting banking trojan Zeus are launchedThe infamous ZeuS trojan continues spreading in the web with incredible speed. Zeus is guilty of over 7% of all viral attacks, with 3,6 million PCs being infected only in the U.S. Taking into account that in 10 out of 1000 cases of infection the accounts of victims lose to somebody's pocket from $10,000 to $100,000 (and in 50 more cases – the smaller amounts), it is easy to imagine the scale of financial losses that Zeus has already caused to payment systems and Internet banking users. The particular danger is that the thefts occur not only from personal, but also from corporate accounts, where the money is allocated for salary payments. And banking transactions committed from the corporate account, as you know, have no retroactive effect.ZeuS can track and transfer to the hackers’ servers not only financial data (the information necessary for authentication in payment systems), but in general any file on your PC through remote access. Antivirus software and security systems are often powerless – there were the cases registered of circumvention of such modern protection techniques as DiggiPass (Go3), coordinate systems, certificates and pass keys to personal accounts, and cut-ins of additional authentication forms (for example, «magic word» under the input password field). Trojan also uses the so-called "autosaves": once the victim has passed authorization in online banking system from an infected computer, virus transfers the money to intruders’ accounts during the banking session. Thanks to “invisibility cap” of VNC (Virtual Network Computing), which appeared in the latest edition of ZeuS, user’s participation is no longer required. Trojan can do everything itself – VNC allows it logging in any systems and transferring a pretty sum from the account, unobtrusively using a browser. The most popular Internet Explorer and Firefox (which, by the way, was considered the safest until recently), are especially vulnerable. In Russia, where Internet banking is just developing, the users of payment systems W1, Yandex.Money, OSMP (Qiwi), Assist, RBK Money and WebMoney are at risk. As for the banks, addresses of Alfa-Bank and Citibank have got into ZeuS configuration files. The major specialization of the virus in the West is brokerage accounts of E-Trade, Ameritrade, Schwabs, Thinkorswim, Option Express companies, Fidelity pension funds, and particularly account of the Bank of America. The holder of any account is a potential victim. Zeus is a great danger for the card holders, because modern banking service allows to change the billing address from the statistics online, and your card can consequently get a new home with the balance flowing away via popular online stores such as amazon.com, wallmart.com and so on. The major innovation (polymorphic encryption) makes ZeuS only more immune to most of the known antivirus software, even with the updated virus database. However, this hackers’ attack has already got a respond from the Martindale Enterprises Limited company, which released a unique antivirus product Shield EC. As the developers say, Shield EC guarantees a complete isolation of the PC from the threat, even if the signature code hasn’t got to the antivirus databases yet. According to a company’s press release, Shield EC is a result of a two-year research in cooperation with Zeus Tracker, the center for ZeuS epidemic prevention. It is especially highlighted that antivirus is also adapted for use in large corporations for prevention of serious financial losses from corporate accounts. Shield EC is already available for purchase with distributors’ website at the estimated cost just over $70. Not such a big price to safely protecting yourself from data loss, especially if you have something to lose. |  |
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