Hesperbot: An Atrocious Banking Trojan

Overview
Last month, a newly effective banking trojan has been discovered, targeting online banking users. This malware uses very reliable looking link addresses or domains which are related to trusted organizations to attract victims into running them. Even though this trojan has analogous functionality and goals like that of the ignominious Zeus and SpyEye, its architecture and way of implementation makes it fall in a new malware family. This banking trojan, regardless of being a new malware program, emerged as Win32/Spy.Hesperbot. The main aim of the offender is to obtain credentials giving access to the victim’s bank account and making them install a mobile component of the malware on smartphone platforms (Symbian, Android, and Blackberry).
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