Banking Trojans with account commandeering capabilities are dangerous enough on their own, but two major changes made to one Trojan's code makeup have increased its persistence and risk to potential victims.
Recent findings from researcher/author King Salemno of the Charleston, S.C.-based cybersecurity firm PhishLabs focused on Vawtrak/Neverquest2, which now uses a domain generation algorithm to identify its command-and-control server.
"It is a sophisticated, modern banking Trojan with advanced account hijacking capabilities," Salemno said.
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Roy Urrico
Roy W. Urrico specializes in articles about financial technology and services for Credit Union Times, as well as ghostwriting, copywriting, and case studies. Also: writer/editor of a semi-annual newsletter for Association for Financial Technology since 1997 and history projects funded by the U.S Interior Department, National Park Service and Warren County (N.Y.).
