The IBM security team has uncovered a new and dangerous Trojan called GozNym that targets online bank accounts and lies dormant until a user logs into their account. The malware is unlike previous Trojans and has so many encryption layers that it has been difficult for the security experts to break it open. Maor mentions how much encrypted the GyzNom malware is, “When we first saw it, we were saying something bad is happening here, but we’ve never seen this before… there are so many layers, we had to break in just to understand what it was” Even the anti-virus software and other programs are not able to detect it. According to IBM’s researchers, this particular Trojan, known as “Goz,” was first discovered in June of last year by researchers from Kaspersky Lab, who have since published an analysis on
The IBM security team has uncovered a new and dangerous Trojan called GozNym that targets online bank accounts and lies dormant until a user logs into their account. The malware is unlike previous Trojans and has so many encryption layers that it has been difficult for the security experts to break it open. According to IBM’s researchers, this particular Trojan, known as “Goz,” was first discovered in June of last year by researchers from Kaspersky Lab, who have since published an analysis on