Zeus, often referred as Zbot is one of the popular crimeware botnet typically engaged in data theft. The term Zeus is used to refer to an entire family of trojans and their respective bot nets. It was reported by 2007.
It installs a rootkit component to remain hidden on infected systems. It is learnt that it disables antivirus and security software in an effort to disguise itself and avoid detection. It is reported that the worm injects itself into the address space of other running processes like Windows Explorer to remain active on infected systems. Refer the article on Zeus in ITNEXT.
It has again reemerged targeting the zero day threat exploited by stuxnet family. Security firm F-Secure has reported the appearance of strains of Zeus exploiting the same security hole exploited by the Stuxnet worm.
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