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PayPal accounts abused to distribute the Chthonic Banking Trojan

Experts from Proofpoint discovered that the Banking trojan Chthonic was distributed via legitimate PayPal accounts by abusing the money request feature. The attackers in this way could bypass anti-spam filters and antivirus solutions because the emails come via genuine PayPal accounts. Chtonic is a strain of the most notorious Zeus Trojan, the researchers spotted a new campaign leveraging on emails sent by genuine PayPal account holders. One sample analyzed by Proofpoint was not detected by Gmail because the message appeared to be legitimate.”]

Source: https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/49891/cyber-crime/paypal-chthonic-trojan.html

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