Monthly Archives: October 2011

ZeuS Trojan Gang Faces Justice

October 4, 2011
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Authorities in the United Kingdom have convicted the 13th and final defendant from a group arrested last year and accused of running an international cybercrime syndicate that laundered millions of dollars stolen from consumers and businesses with the help of the help of the ZeuS banking Trojan. The news comes days after U.S. authorities announced the guilty plea of the 27th and final individual arrested last year in New York in a related international money-laundering scheme.

Monster Spam Campaigns Lead to Cyberheists

October 3, 2011
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Phishers and cyber thieves have been casting an unusually wide net lately, blasting out huge volumes of fraudulent email designed to spread password-stealing banking Trojans. Judging from the number of victims who reported costly cyber heist in the past two weeks, many small to medium sized organizations took the bait.