OSLO, October 13, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Zeus is posing the main cyber threat towards online banking services today. The Zeus Trojan is a sophisticated and highly adaptive malware toolkit. Infection typically takes place through drive-by-downloads and phishing attacks. Recent reports from NetMediaEurope mention Zeus being responsible for a loss of $70 million for US banks and GBP6 million for UK banks.
Conventional security solutions experience problems stopping Zeus. Several articles on the internet mention that over 50% of the Zeus infected systems run with updated Anti-virus software. Earlier this year it was discovered that Zeus is also targeting SMS-TAN authentication solutions on mobile phones.
While the end user starts the online banking session, Zeus enters the browser and gains control over the user's bank account. Zeus then invisibly changes the communication between user and bank; he can steal data and manipulate transactions without the end user noticing it. Promon Shield protects the user against Spyware and Trojans like Zeus by stopping it from entering the browser.
Without browser access, Zeus is not able to grab and manipulate the necessary data to perform a successful attack. Promon Shield is a small, dedicated, security module which is automatically delivered by the service provider (typically the bank) without bothering the user. Every time the user enters the online bank account, Promon Shield provides a secure browser session which is kept Trojan free.
The Promon solution is unique because of its
- integrated protection as part of the web service - proactive and real time protection - automatic (on demand) delivery to the user without bothering the user; small overhead - non-intrusiveness; no other programs on the client are affected
Promon will present this technology at the Itsa in Nuremberg from 19.10 - 21.10 on the stand 356 and in several live hacking sessions.
About Promon
Promon is a Norwegian company that develops and distributes technology designed to detect and foil attacks against computer systems. Its patent pending developments have been successful in combating a wide range of attacks including malware that causes financial fraud as well as identity and data theft. http://www.promon.no
Contact Promon AS Stephan Gäbler Vice President Business Development Tel: +47-22-02-11-33 stephan.gaebler@promon.no PR contact: Janina Rogge Kafka Kommunikation GmbH Co KG Tel.: +49(0)89-74747058-11 jrogge@kafka-kommunikation.de
SOURCE: Promon AS
CONTACT: PR contact: Janina Rogge, Kafka Kommunikation GmbH Co KG, Tel.:+49(0)89-74747058-11, jrogge@kafka-kommunikation.de
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