Dyre malware adds corporate espionage

Viruses and Trojans are continually being repurposed for all kinds of nastiness.  A Zeus variant known now as Dyre, is a banking trojan that first got noticed in June when security companies warned that the Zeus knockoff found a way to bypass Web encryption, know as secure sockets layer (SSL). At that time, it was used to target some of the largest banks concerns including: Bank of America, Ulsterbank, RBS, Natwest and Citibank. An even newer version of Dyre has begun targeting Salesforce, a popular cloud service for storing customer information. We use this program to manage many of our vendor’s CRM functions. Watch out, another whole new breed is coming out.