Threat Category: Financial threats | Page 23

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

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.

The report features the most significant developments relating to APT groups in Q3 2024, including hacktivist activity, new APT tools and campaigns.

Financial threats

More online safety advice

Bagle targeting banks

Credit card gang busted in Italy

Malicious encryption programs

Reports

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?

APT trends report Q3 2024

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