IBM warns banks and corporate officers of a change to the dangerous Dyre banking Trojan that involves the phone scam used to bypass fraud detection and a DDoS attack that distracts security teams away from big-money transfers. Eastern European keepers of Dyre recently upped their social engineering game with the addition of a call center-type operation that pilfers passwords and two-factor authentication PIN codes in order to beat fraud detection systems. IBM researchers on Thursday disclosed this latest facet to Dyre, and said they ve seen fraudulent big money transfers as a result of the malware s recent changes.
Source: https://threatpost.com/dyre-banking-malware-a-million-dollar-threat/112009/