ZeuS, or Zbot is one of the oldest families of financial malware, it is a Trojan horse capable to carry out various malicious and criminal tasks and is often used to steal banking information. It is distributed to a wide audience, primarily through infected web pages, spam campaigns and drive-by downloads.
According to researchers, there is only a minimal change in the new variant of P2P Zeus as the new binary also drops a rootkit driver file into the %SYSTEM32%drivers folder, apart from its original functions. New Zeus Trojan equipped with rootkit feature makes it more sophisticated and increases the difficulty of removing Zeus from infected systems.
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