Threat Category: Financial threats | Page 23

We’re starting to see a growth in the number of malicious programs which are being used to get money out of users – a type of cyber extortion.

To coincide with the release of the annual mid-year card fraud figures, APACS (the UK payments association) is launching a fraud awareness campaign using its Card Watch and Bank Safe Online initiatives.

The latest variants of Bagle that we’ve detected over the past five days show that the virus writer behind this worm is shifting focus to on-line banks and payment systems.

Police in Italy have arrested almost 40 people so far in conjunction with credit card fraud.

Recently we’ve noticed several versions of one malicious program spreading. The program encrypts users files.

Reports

Kaspersky researchers analyze EAGERBEE backdoor modules, revealing a possible connection to the CoughingDown APT actor.

While investigating an incident involving the BellaCiao .NET malware, Kaspersky researchers discovered a C++ version they dubbed “BellaCPP”.

Lazarus targets employees of a nuclear-related organization with a bunch of malware, such as MISTPEN, LPEClient, RollMid, CookieTime and a new modular backdoor CookiePlus.

Kaspersky researchers analyze 2019, 2022 and 2024 attacks attributed to Careto APT with medium to high confidence.

Financial threats

Your money or your system registry

More online safety advice

Bagle targeting banks

Credit card gang busted in Italy

Malicious encryption programs

Reports

EAGERBEE, with updated and novel components, targets the Middle East

BellaCPP: Discovering a new BellaCiao variant written in C++

Lazarus group evolves its infection chain with old and new malware

Careto is back: what’s new after 10 years of silence?

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