Cyber criminals have stolen more than half a million euros from accounts of a major European bank, which was discovered by the experts at Kaspersky Lab’s global research and analysis team.
Through the inspection of the server used by the attackers, the experts found evidence of a targeted attack against 190 clients of a large European bank, mostly from Italy and Turkey.
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Kaspersky Lab’s experts detected a C&C server on the net whose control panel indicated evidence of a Trojan program used to steal money from clients’ bank accounts.
Further, the experts also detected transaction logs on the server, containing information about money taken from specific accounts. The money stolen from each bank account ranged between 1,700 to 39,000.
The campaign was at least one week old when the C&C was discovered, having started no later than 13 January 2014.
Kaspersky Lab principal security researcher Vicente Diaz said, "Soon after we detected this C&C server, we contacted the bank’s security service and the law enforcement agencies, and submitted all our evidence to them."
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By GlobalData"On the C&C server we detected there was no information as to which specific malware program was used in this campaign.
"However, many existing Zeus variations (Citadel, SpyEye, IceIX, etc.) – have that necessary capability. We believe the malware used in this campaign could be a Zeus flavor using Vicente Diaz.sophisticated web injects on the victims," Diaz added.
