Showing posts with label Tinba Banking Trojan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tinba Banking Trojan. Show all posts

Thursday, 27 August 2015

Infected Advertisements In Major Australian ISP


On the media website of Telstra, the largest ISP and telecommunications company in Australia with 27 million customers, are infected ads appeared that visitors with malware trying to infect. The ads on media.telstra.com.au let visitors unnoticed a page with the Nuclear-exploitkit charge. This exploitkit is using known vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash Player and Internet Explorer.

What kind of malware was spread via the attack is unknown, but anti-virus company Malwarebytes think it's going to Tinba banking Trojan. This is a Trojan specifically designed to steal money from online bank accounts. The attack on the infected ads is very similar to the attack that was recently on dating site PlentyOfFish observed. The infected ads on the Telstra website were several days running.

Friday, 21 August 2015

Infected Ads On Dating Site PlentyOfFish



On the free online dating site PlentyOfFish infectious ads have appeared that tried to infect visitors with a Trojan horse. PlentyOfFish receives daily more than three million visitors. The ads on the website users imperceptibly sent to a website with the Nuclear exploitkit. This exploitkit is using known vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash Player and Internet Explorer.

In the case the attack was successful was the Tinba banking Trojan installed on the computer. This Trojan is designed to steal money from online bank accounts. The infected ads were distributed through the ad network ad.360yield.com, reports anti-virus company Malwarebytes. Visitors PlentyOfFish whose software up-to-date was ran no risk in this attack.