New Dridex Malware Campaign Shifts to U.S.

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Researchers at F5 Networks Security Operations Center (SOC) are warning of a new campaign of the Dridex web fraud malware. Previous campaigns had recently focused attacks on financial institutions in the United Kingdom, but among the new campaign’s malware configurations, only 6 percent of the targeted institutions are UK brands, versus 80 percent in the US and 5 percent in Canada.

Dyre is out, Dridex back in

The resurgence of the Dridex malware isn’t a surprise, as its main competitors for PC-based web fraud--SpyEye, Dyre, and Zeus--have all come under pressure from international law-enforcement agencies.

Two main operators of the SpyEye family have been shut down. Earlier this month,SecurityWeek reported that US authorities sentenced Russian national Aleksandr Andreevich Panin to nearly ten years in prison. Panin was attempting to travel through Atlanta, Georgia in the US when he was captured. The same court sentenced another fraudster, Algerian national Hamza Bendelladj, aka Bx1, to 15 years in prison and three years of supervised release.

The Dyre malware family has been in decline since February, when the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (the FSB) raided a Moscow film studio and arrested Dyre’s main operators.

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