New ZeuS Generates Income for Its Masters by Displaying Sites on Infected Computers

  • 20 March 2014
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ZeuS, the notorious banking malware, continues to evolve. One new version spotted by experts appears to engage in pay-per-click activities to generate income for its masters.
Websites are opened every time the victim performs an activity like opening a window or a file. If the user doesn’t do anything when these arbitrary websites are displayed, the malware takes control of the mouse, moving the cursor and scrolling the screen.

Victims can access the desktop by pressing the Windows key+D combination, but the sites still run in the background. Furthermore, more windows will continue to pop up as users perform other activities.
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This brings me back... hijacking to pay-per-click websites was one of the techniques that started the monitization of malware, amazing how things come full circle...
 
-Dan

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