Cybercriminal Ring Seeks 100 Botmasters To Launch Trojan Attack On 30 Us Banks

snoopy · Oct 6, 2012

Cybercriminal Ring Seeks 100 Botmasters to Launch Trojan Attack on 30 US Banks

The distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks experienced by a handful of US financial institutions are nothing compared to what a group of cybercriminals is planning. The RSA has learned that 30 American banks might soon become the targets of Trojan attacks sustained by around 100 botmasters.

The cybercriminal gang that came up with the idea - HangUp Team or an affiliated collective - has started recruiting botmasters and plans to carry out the operation with a rare Trojan that resembles Gozi. Since the word Prinimalka appears in every URL path utilized by this particular group, researchers dubbed the malware Gozi Prinimalka.

Although it’s not very well known, the Trojan has been successfully used to steal around $5 million (4 million EUR) from American bank accounts. According to experts, American banks are the target of this campaign because unlike most European banks, they don’t require the use of two-factor authentication when customers perform wire transfers.

Since the Gozi Prinimalka Trojan is privately operated and its owners want it to remain this way, the botmasters that will take part in this major scheme will most likely only receive executable files, not the compiler.
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