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A New, Advanced Banking Trojan

in the Wild

HESPERBOT

A New, Advanced Banking Trojan in the Wild

Hesperbot – A New, Advanced Banking

Trojan in the Wild

A new and effective banking trojan has been discovered targeting online banking users in Turkey, the Czech Republic, Portugal and the United Kingdom. It uses very credible-looking phishing-like campaigns, related to trustworthy organizations, to lure victims into running the malware. The Story

In the middle of August we discovered a malware-spreading

campaign in the Czech Republic. Our interest was first kindled by the site that the malware was hosted on – a domain that passed itself off as belonging to the Czech Postal Service – but more interesting findings followed.

Analysis of the threat revealed that we…