Posts Tagged: SpyEye

The Trusteer research team recently uncovered a stealth new attack carried out by the SpyEye Trojan that circumvents mobile SMS (short message service) security measures implemented by many banks. Using code we captured while protecting a Rapport user, we discovered a two-step web-based attack that allows fraudsters to change the mobile phone number in a… Read more »

We have uncovered a SpyEye configuration that targets users of two leading European airline travel Web sites:  Air Berlin, the second largest airline in Germany (after Lufthansa) and AirPlus, the global provider of business travel services for companies. SpyEye exploits the user’s machine, not the websites, to carry out this fraud. The attack subjects are… Read more »

Less than a month ago, S21sec e-crime detected a new threat that defeats the second authentication vector based on SMS. Today, we’re back to announce a new technique which, although is already known, is affecting some organizations during the last weeks: Man in the Browser. Briefly, this new technique (MitB), is implemented by a trojan… Read more »