{"id":234,"date":"2014-02-10T04:15:31","date_gmt":"2014-02-10T04:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ccrepairservices.com\/blog\/?p=234"},"modified":"2014-02-10T04:23:08","modified_gmt":"2014-02-10T04:23:08","slug":"bredo-banking-malware-campaign-targets-bank-of-america-customers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ccrepairservices.com\/blog\/computer-news\/bredo-banking-malware-campaign-targets-bank-of-america-customers\/","title":{"rendered":"Bredo Banking Malware Campaign Targets Bank of America Customers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last month the researchers at AppRiver has noticed enormous volumes of traffic through their data centers, with the peaks of traffic reaching three or four times than their normal network traffic. <\/strong><\/p>\n

They caught and blocked a malware campaign that was using the new and novel tactics designed specifically to beat the filtering engines.<\/p>\n

Last Wednesday the company experienced huge spam traffic i.e. 10 to 12 times the normal amount of their normal routine traffic. \u201cThese spikes have been driven by a tremendous increase in the number of incoming messages being sent with viruses attached.\u201d and some user experienced delays in sending and receiving mail.<\/p>\n

They found the malware campaign, distributing a Financial Trojan designed to target, the Bank of America customers<\/strong><\/em><\/span>, known as \u2018Bredo virus<\/span><\/strong>\u2019, capable of stealing information such as Credit Card Numbers, Banking credentials, user\u2019s keystrokes.<\/p>\n

AppRiver said that \u2018The software may also have abilities to further infect a system by downloading more malware on to the machine\u2019 and added that, \u2018running through a variety of virus scanners showed that only 11 of 51 antivirus vendors were classifying it as malware.\u2019<\/p>\n

The Bredo botnet was first detected in May 2009 and is capable of propagating through malicious e-mails that includes malware attachments which would infect a computer when opened, effectively turning the computer into another zombie controlled by the botnet.<\/p>\n

In October 2010, the Dutch law enforcement agents seized 143 LeaseWeb servers used as command & the control center of botnet, but were not able to successfully vanish it completely.<\/p>\n

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Last month the researchers at AppRiver has noticed enormous volumes of traffic through their data centers, with the peaks of traffic reaching three or four times than their normal network traffic. They caught and blocked a malware campaign that was using the new and novel tactics designed specifically to beat the filtering engines. Last Wednesday the company experienced huge spam traffic i.e. 10 to 12 times the normal amount of their normal routine traffic. \u201cThese spikes have been driven by a tremendous increase in the number of incoming messages being sent with viruses attached.\u201d and some user experienced delays in sending and receiving mail. They found the malware campaign, distributing a Financial Trojan designed to target, the Bank of America customers, known as \u2018Bredo virus\u2019, capable of stealing information such as Credit Card Numbers, Banking credentials, user\u2019s keystrokes. AppRiver said that \u2018The software may also have abilities to further infect a system by downloading more malware on to the machine\u2019 and added that, \u2018running through a variety of virus scanners showed that only 11 of 51 antivirus vendors were classifying it as malware.\u2019 The Bredo botnet was first detected in May 2009 and is capable of propagating through malicious e-mails […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[179,103,19,10,7,180],"class_list":["post-234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-news","category-virus-and-malware-threats","tag-bank-of-america","tag-computer-news-2","tag-computer-repair","tag-new-virus","tag-virus","tag-virus-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ccrepairservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ccrepairservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ccrepairservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ccrepairservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ccrepairservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ccrepairservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238,"href":"https:\/\/www.ccrepairservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions\/238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ccrepairservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ccrepairservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ccrepairservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}