BlackMoon Banking Trojan Infected over 160,000 South Koreans

  • 22 July 2016
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The crooks behind the recent campaign may be from China

 
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Jul 22, 2016 00:00 GMT  ·  By Catalin Cimpanu  Over 100,000 South Koreans had their banking credentials stolen by crooks who leveraged the BlackMoon banking trojan, also detected as W32/Banbra, Fortinet researchers reveal.
 
The security vendor initially identified the campaign in April, when it also managed to discover an open-access directory belonging to one of the BlackMoon C&C servers.
 
Inside, security researchers found logs and data that revealed details about infected victims. The numbers showed 110,130 victims worldwide and 108,850 in South Korea. Bear in mind that BlackMoon uses different C&C servers, so the total numbers are probably higher.
 
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What do they mean "may be"...I would have said it would be more a case of "most likely to be"...given their track record in this shadowy area.

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