Banks face their 'darkest hour' as malware steps up, maker of antivirus says
Crimeware targeting banks and other financial-services organizations today features sophisticated capabilities and evasion tools, according to Kaspersky's lead security researcher Sergey Lozhkin.
BlackLotus, a Unified Extensible Firmware Interface firmware rootkit used to backdoor Windows machines, is one such newly discovered tool. Kaspersky hasn't yet published full research about the malicious implant, but Lozhkin said it appeared for sale with a $5,000 price tag on the cybercrime scene earlier this month.
"So basically, if a bad guy gets access to a network or a computer, he can install this tool, and it will be fully undetected, fully persistent, on the UEFI level," Lozhkin said. "These threats and technologies before were only accessible by guys who were developing advanced persistent threats, mostly governments," Lozhkin claimed."Now these kinds of tools are in the hands of criminals all over the forums."
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