http://www.darkreading.com/security/vulnerabilities/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=223101487 By Kelly Jackson Higgins DarkReading March 04, 2010 SAN FRANCISCO -- RSA Conference 2010 -- Russian hackers have written a more sophisticated version of the infamous BlackEnergy Trojan associated with the 2008 cyberattacks against Georgia that now targets Russian and Ukrainian online banking customers. Joe Stewart, a security researcher with SecureWorks, says Russian hackers are using the Trojan spread via the BlackEnergy botnet to hit Russian and Ukrainian banks with a two-pronged attack that steals their customers' online banking credentials and then wages a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on the banks as a cover: "They may be emptying the bank accounts while the banks are busy cleaning up from the DDoS," Stewart says. Dubbed by Stewart as "BlackEnergy 2," this new version of the Trojan is a full rewrite of the code that features a modular architecture that supports plug-ins that can be written without access to its source code. It currently comes with three different DDoS plug-ins, as well as one for spamming and two for online banking fraud, according to Stewart. And with the ability to target users in Russia and the Ukraine, BlackEnergy 2 is a departure from the tradition where many Russian hackers won't target their fellow countrymen or those from other former Soviet Republic countries. "The rules have changed," Stewart says. "There was once an unwritten rule that they didn't attack their own banks." [...] ___________________________________________________________ Register now for HITBSecConf2010 - Dubai, the premier deep-knowledge network security event in the GCC, featuring keynote speakers John Viega and Matt Watchinski! http://conference.hitb.org/hitbsecconf2010dxb/Received on Fri Mar 05 2010 - 00:45:21 PST
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