According to the security researchers from AppRiver, the attack toolkit namely Blackhole has been found to increasingly imitate certain attack tactics that Zeus Trojan earlier utilized. Eweek.com reported this on October 17, 2011.
Blackhole, which was traditionally utilized for contaminating lawful Internet sites for executing drive-by download assaults, presently unleashes bulk e-mails as also uses other assault techniques that the SpyEye and Zeus toolkits for crime-ware used, says Senior Security Analyst Fred Touchette for AppRiver. Eweek.com published this.
Previously, when Blackhole was employed, people resorted to methods such as Search Engine Optimization (SEO) corruption for taking victims onto malicious websites that the perpetrators crafted; however, now they're starting to utilize bulk electronic mails, Touchette continues. Touchette further says that Zeus has been normally responsible for bulk e-mails asserting that they're from Internal Revenue Service, alternatively for notices of package deliveries.
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