Zeos ,The Most Prevalant Financial Malware

Zeos also knows as Zbot infects PCs, waits for the user to log onto a list of targeted banks and financial institutions, and then steals their credentials which are sent to a remote server in real time. It can modify genuine web page from bank's server to ask for personal information such as payment card number and PIN.

Ironically .Most antivirus was unable to detect zeos , based on study conducted in US and UK in 2009. The new version of Zeos (known as Zeos 2) targeted Internet explorer and FireFox browsers and use complicated methods to avoid antivirus detection.

Zeos which affected PCs for the first in 2006,it is still considered as one of the dangerous Pisces of malware on the Internet.