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Banking Trojans & Site Vulnerabilities Lurk in the Shadows

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While massive breaches such as with the Marriott chain and Quora deservedly attract most of the attention a new banking bot menace and jewelry website vulnerabilities also loom as threats.

The DanaBot banking Trojan is back, and has expanded beyond banking to compromise email servers by enabling it to harvest email addresses and send out spam straight from the victim’s mailbox. The latest variant of the malware achieves this by injecting JavaScript code into the pages of specific web-based email services. Among the targets are all email solutions based on based on Roundcube, Horde, and Open-Xchange.

Roy Urrico

Roy Urrico

Roy W. Urrico specializes in articles about financial technology and services for Credit Union Times, as well as ghostwriting, copywriting, and case studies. Also: writer/editor of a semi-annual newsletter for Association for Financial Technology since 1997 and history projects funded by the U.S Interior Department, National Park Service and Warren County (N.Y.).

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