Trojan Writers Target UK Banks With Botnets

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Trojan Writers Target UK Banks With Botnets

Cybercriminals are building country-specific botnets to target UK bank consumers with dedicated malware, security company Trusteer has reported.

The company identifies two pieces of malware -- the previously undetected Silon.var2 and the longer-established Agent.DBJP - as the two bank Trojans being distributed by Zeus-based botnets using UK-infected PCs.

Silon.var2 now affects 1 in every 500 UK-based PCs connected to the Trusteer Flashlight system, 40 times the detection level for the US, with Agent.DBJP affecting 1 in every 5,000 UK-based PCs, again far higher than for the US.

It's not clear whether these detection rates are partly a quirk of the Trusteer customer base, but it is clear that country-specific malware is now a defined strategy for the banking trojan botnets, with the UK high on the hit-list.

Details - http://www.pcworld.c...th_botnets.html