Banking Trojan Zeus Hits Firefox
April 26, 2010 Computer Safety Tip
It has recently been discovered that it is not only Internet Explorer users who are being targeted by the Zeus banking 
Trojan. According to news reports the Zeus banking Trojan is currently also targeting Mozilla Firefox users. Zeus is very dangerous due to the factor that it has been in existence since the year 2005.It has been used by cybercriminals across the globe in order to commit various attacks against banking customers.
Zeus conducts its attacks by a means of keystroke logging and is able to spread via drive by downloads or even by various phishing attacks. One of the good aspects with regard to this malicious banking Trojan was the factor that it was unable to attack Firefox. Unfortunately latest news has revealed that one of the latest versions is now able to target Firefox. This means that all Firefox users need to be actively aware of the dangers involved and the risk factors which they are presented with.
The new version 1.6 actually supports HTML Injection as well as transaction tampering, which is able to actually bypass very strong authentication as well as various signing protocols. Security expert, Rik Ferguson, mentioned to the Enquirer that factor that it may be a new version but it does not matter because security software is able to detect the Trojan.
Rik Ferguson said:”One of the things that happens with Zeus, which happens with all malware these days, is that it gets packed and re-packed and continually re-packed in order to avoid traditional signature-based anti-malware solutions.”
You need to be aware of the factor that there is a brand new Jabber chat module in Zeus 1.6,that is able to actually relay banking credentials back to the malicious cybercriminals in real time, this may be seen as an attempt to actually overcome the issue of two factor authentication. At the end of the day no matter what browser you are using, it is imperative that you are aware of the risks involved and don’t become the next victim.
