The $7000 malware shows there is serious money to be made in the banking Trojan market.

 

Kronos, also known as the "father of Zeus," is a particularly pernicious form of malware which simply will not go away.

 

Zeus, Gozi, and Citadel are well-known Trojans which focus their efforts on the theft of financial credentials which can be used by threat actors to compromise online bank accounts, conduct identity theft, or collect data which is later sold in credential dumps on the Dark Web.

 

In Greek mythology, Kronos is Zeus' father. In the world of black hat cybersecurity tools, a somewhat similar relationship appears to exist -- a connection prompted by Kronos injection files that are specifically crafted by the malware's developer to be compatible with Zeus variants.

 

In March, Webroot researchers discovered that the TrickBot Trojan had also been taught a number of new tricks, including a new file locking system found more commonly in ransomware strains.

 

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