complete article: http://www.rsa.com/blog/blog_entry.aspx?id=1530
The arms race between cybercriminals and security professionals has recently stepped up, with the online gang behind the URLZone Trojan driving one more rung into the evolutionary ladder of online crime.
As man-in-the-browser (MITB) attacks gain momentum and prevalence in the cybercrime space, the criminals who launch these attacks continue refining their tools and techniques to facilitate the cashout of stolen online banking accounts.
The URLZone gang had known that it was being closely watched, researched and scrutinized for quite some time before last Wednesday’s publication of Finjan’s Cybercrime Intelligence Report, (Issue number 3, 2009). The secure web gateway provider details its findings with respect to URLZone, a Trojan that attacked online banking customers in Germany. Aware of their crimeware being probed and examined, the gang took proactive measures in an attempt to prevent their mule accounts from being exposed by anti-fraud security researchers and law enforcement agencies. (See Business Success in a Dark Market: An Inside Look at the Fraud Underground on the RSA Online Fraud Resource center for more information about mules).
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