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Researcher snaps a Zeus hacker's photo through his webcam

posted onAugust 8, 2014
by l33tdawg

Security researcher Raashid Bhatt has detailed how to bust the security protections of the Zeus banking trojan allowing him to take a webcam photo of the scammer.

Bhatt (@raashidbhatt) wrote in a technical blog how he reverse-engineered the malware after a scammer attempted to foist the malware on him through a phishing scam claiming that "a person from your office was found dead outside" directing him to open a malicious attachment to verify the victim's identity.

Bhat employed tools including IDA Pro and some developed by fellow cybercrime researcher known as Xylitol to pry open the guts of the trojan. After owning the Zeus command and control panel Bhatt fired up the web cam_snap module for the Metasploit hacking tool waited for the scammer to log in.

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