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Trusteer: Criminals behind Zeus Trojan are failing to cover their tracks
September 2010 by Trusteer CEO
Reports that the Metropolitan Police’s e-crime unit have arrested 19 people in connection with the notorious Zeus Trojan malware - show that some of the criminal groups behind Zeus are failing to cover their tracks according to Mickey Boodaei, CEO of Trusteer, the Secure Browsing Service specialist.
“The arrests shows that some of the criminal groups behind Zeus are doing a poor job in covering their tracks,” said Mickey Boodaei, Trusteer’s CEO “This provides an excellent opportunity for the police, the banks, and their customers to join together and get more criminals behinds bars. The police did a great job in tracing down this group and gathering information that can facilitate their arrest. This is not a simple task and I’ve heard many people saying that this is almost impossible due to the level of sophistication from criminals and the complication of the justice system. However, this case and a few others that precede it show that this can be achieved.”
In a recent initiative by Trusteer and a few other organizations, we were able to actually penetrate the criminals’ servers and gather a lot of evidence from them. This shows that criminals are vulnerable.
“By running more operations like this and by the banks and other organizations investing effort in tracing fraudsters and not just blocking their activities, there is a good chance we can lower the volumes of attacks. Customers can take their banks’ advice and implement fraud prevention tools that provide valuable capabilities to banks in detecting and blocking these threats. By working together we can definitely stop this threat from growing.” Boodaei said
