Zeus Sphinx Banking Trojan Arises Amid COVID-19


According to researchers Amir Gandler and Limor Kessem at IBM X-Force, Sphinx (a.k.a. Zloader or Terdot) began resurfacing in December. However, the researchers observed a significant increase in volume in March, as Sphinx’s operators looked to take advantage of the interest and news around government relief payments.

First seen in August 2015, Sphinx is a modular malware based on the leaked source code of the infamous Zeus banking trojan, the researchers explained. Like other banking trojans, Sphinx’s core capability is to harvest online account credentials for online banking sites (and some other services). When infected users land on a targeted online banking portal, Sphinx dynamically fetches web injections from its command-and-control (C2) server to modify the page that the user sees, so that the information that the user enters into the log-in fields is sent to the cybercriminals.

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Source:  ThreatPost