Shylock financial malware back 'with a vengeance'

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Shylock financial malware back 'with a vengeance'
Botnet	Shylock
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CCProtocol
Date	2012 / 2012-02-16
Editor/Conference	CSO Online
Link	http://www.csoonline.com/article/700368/shylock-financial-malware-back-with-a-vengeance- (Archive copy)
Author	Taylor Armerding
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Abstract

“ Trusteer, a Boston-based in-browser web security vendor, issued a warning this week about the return "with a vengeance" of "Shylock," a polymorphic financial malware variant the company discovered last September that is now showing up again in end-user machines.

It is aimed primarily at global financial institutions. Trusteer code-named it Shylock because, "every new build bundles random excerpts from Shakespeare's 'The Merchant of Venice' in its binary," according to a blog post by Trusteer CTO Amit Klein.

"These are designed to change the malware's file signature to avoid detection by anti-virus programs," wrote Klein.

Bibtex

 @misc{Armerding2012BFR1045,
   editor = {CSO Online},
   author = {Taylor Armerding},
   title = {Shylock financial malware back 'with a vengeance'},
   date = {16},
   month = Feb,
   year = {2012},
   howpublished = {\url{http://www.csoonline.com/article/700368/shylock-financial-malware-back-with-a-vengeance-}},
 }