Infosecurity magazine is quoting Manchester, England, news sources as reporting that the Metropolitan Police Central e-Crime Unit has arrested a man and a woman and charged them with distributing the Zbot Trojan.
Infosecurity wrote: “the Zbot trojan has become one of the most virulent trojans in recent months with Sunbelt Software reporting incidences as 25% up during October compared to the month before.”
Zbot uses a wide variety of social engineering tricks to spread through a variety of methods, including spam email and Web downloads. It created a large botnet that collects information about victim’s credit card, banking and social network logins.
Story here.
Tom Kelchner