New Trojan Used in High Level Financial Attacks, Multiple Banks Attacked

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New Trojan Used in High Level Financial Attacks, Multiple Banks Attacked

By CircleID Reporter
October 11, 2016, 8:58 pm PDT Views: 6,973 Comments: 1

Since January 2016, discreet campaigns involving malware called Trojan.Odinaff have targeted a number of financial organizations worldwide, warned Symantec Security Response team on Tuesday: “These attacks appear to be extremely focused on organizations operating in the banking, securities, trading, and payroll sectors. Organizations who provide support services to these industries are also of interest.”

— Odinaff is typically deployed in the first stage of an attack, to gain a foothold onto the network, providing a persistent presence and the ability to install additional tools onto the target network.

— These attacks require a large amount of hands on involvement, with methodical deployment of a range of lightweight back doors and purpose built tools onto computers of specific interest. There appears to be a heavy investment in the coordination, development, deployment, and operation of these tools during the attacks.

— Evidence has been found that the Odinaff group has mounted attacks on SWIFT users, using malware to hide customers’ own records of SWIFT messages relating to fraudulent transactions.

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And the source IP addresses were located Charles Christopher – Oct 12, 2016 2:52 AM

And the source IP addresses were located in?

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