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New Cridex Banking Trojan variant Surfaces with Self-Spreading Functionality

Cybercriminals have developed a new malicious software program that contains functionality to spread itself quickly. Geodo is a new version of the infamous Cridex banking information stealing Trojan that sends out emails automatically to continue its self-spreading infection method. Majority of targets (over 46%) mostly belongs to Germany and majority of targets are from Germany, Austria, Hungary and the United States using phishing attack. Malware that steals banking credentials has been a known problem for years, but now the threat is delivered directly to users from users from other innocent users.

Source: https://thehackernews.com/2014/07/new-cridex-banking-trojan-variant.html

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