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US-CERT Warns of Dyre Banking Trojan

DHS formally sounded the alarm Monday on Dyre, the banking Trojan that s been spotted siphoning banking credentials from large enterprises and major financial institutions. The warning came in the form of an alert from the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) The malware is spread through spam and phishing emails, which are now using malicious PDF attachments that leverage vulnerabilities (namely CVE-2013-2729) in old, unpatched versions of Adobe Reader to download the malware. Once downloaded, it captures user login information and sends that on to attackers.

Source: https://threatpost.com/us-cert-warns-of-dyre-banking-trojan/109056/

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