Hackers spreading financing malware bug target Ukrainian software company

Hackers have compromised the official website of Ukrainian accounting software developer Crystal Finance Millennium to distribute a new variant of the malicious Zeus banking trojan.

According to Cisco Talos researchers, the company’s website was found dispersing malware that was retrieved by malware downloaders attached to messages as part of an ongoing spam campaign.

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Researchers said the attack occurred in August 2017 around the time of Ukraine’s Independence Day holiday. Ukrainian authorities and businesses were alerted to the cyberattack by local security firm ISSP.

However, researchers noted that the hackers did not compromise the company’s update servers or have the same level of access observed in an earlier Nyetya compromise.

 

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