SpyEye Bot versus Zeus Bot
- Thursday, February 4, 2010, 10:36
- Threat Research
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The Zeus crimeware toolkit has been around now for a while and has grown over time to be the most established crimeware toolkit in the underground economy. In late December 2009 a new crimeware toolkit emanating from Russia—known as SpyEye V1.0—started to appear for sale on Russian underground forums. Retailing at $500, it is looking to take a chunk of the Zeus crimeware toolkit market. Symantec detects this threat as Trojan.Spyeye. Since it is relatively new, we are not seeing a lot of SpyEye activity yet. However, given some time and the observed rate of development for this crimeware toolkit, SpyEye could be a future contender for king of the crimeware toolkits.
The SpyEye toolkit is similar to Zeus in a lot of ways. It contains a builder module for creating the Trojan bot executable with config file and a Web control panel for command and control (C&C) of a bot net. Some of the advertised features online are:
• Formgrabber (Keylogger) • Autofill credit card modules • Daily email backup • Encrypted config file
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