Zeus (Malware Family) By Fraunhofer FKIE Archived: 2026-04-06 00:51:27 UTC According to CrowdStrike, The two primary goals of the Zeus trojan horse virus are stealing people's financial information and adding machines to a botnet. Unlike many types of malware, most Zeus variants try to avoid doing long-term damage to the devices they infect. Their aim is to avoid detection from antivirus software. 2024-02-15 ⋅ Bleeping Computer ⋅ Sergiu Gatlan Zeus, IcedID malware gangs leader pleads guilty, faces 40 years in prison Egregor IcedID Maze Zeus 2024-02-15 ⋅ Department of Justice ⋅ Office of Public Affairs Foreign National Pleads Guilty to Role in Cybercrime Schemes Involving Tens of Millions of Dollars in Losses Egregor IcedID Maze Zeus 2023-03-14 ⋅ CrowdStrike ⋅ CrowdStrike The Zeus Trojan Malware - Definition and Prevention Zeus 2022-11-15 ⋅ KrebsOnSecurity ⋅ Brian Krebs Top Zeus Botnet Suspect “Tank” Arrested in Geneva Zeus 2022-10-31 ⋅ paloalto Netoworks: Unit42 ⋅ Or Chechik Banking Trojan Techniques: How Financially Motivated Malware Became Infrastructure Dridex Kronos TrickBot Zeus 2022-04-15 ⋅ Center for Internet Security ⋅ CIS Top 10 Malware March 2022 Mirai Shlayer Agent Tesla Ghost RAT Nanocore RAT SectopRAT solarmarker Zeus 2022-02-11 ⋅ Cisco Talos ⋅ Talos Threat Roundup for February 4 to February 11 DarkComet Ghost RAT Loki Password Stealer (PWS) Tinba Tofsee Zeus 2021-09-09 ⋅ Recorded Future ⋅ Insikt Group Dark Covenant: Connections Between the Russian State and Criminal Actors BlackEnergy EternalPetya Gameover P2P Zeus 2021-09-03 ⋅ Trend Micro ⋅ Mohamad Mokbel The State of SSL/TLS Certificate Usage in Malware C&C Communications AdWind ostap AsyncRAT BazarBackdoor BitRAT Buer Chthonic CloudEyE Cobalt Strike DCRat Dridex FindPOS GootKit Gozi IcedID ISFB Nanocore RAT Orcus RAT PandaBanker Qadars QakBot Quasar RAT Rockloader ServHelper Shifu SManager TorrentLocker TrickBot Vawtrak Zeus Zloader 2021-07-21 ⋅ Malwarebytes ⋅ Malwarebytes The life and death of the ZeuS Trojan Zeus 2021-07-01 ⋅ Kryptos Logic ⋅ Kryptos Logic Vantage Team TrickBot and Zeus TrickBot Zeus 2021-05-07 ⋅ Department of Justice ⋅ Office of Public Affairs Four Individuals Plead Guilty to RICO Conspiracy Involving “Bulletproof Hosting” for Cybercriminals Citadel SpyEye Zeus 2021-04-02 ⋅ NRC Handelsblad ⋅ Carola Houtekamer, Rik Wassens The cesspool of the internet is to be found in a village in North Holland Zeus 2021-03-31 ⋅ Kaspersky ⋅ Kaspersky Financial Cyberthreats in 2020 BetaBot DanaBot Emotet Gozi Ramnit RTM SpyEye TrickBot Zeus 2021-01-01 ⋅ Secureworks ⋅ SecureWorks https://malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de/details/win.zeus Page 1 of 3 Threat Profile: GOLD EVERGREEN CryptoLocker Pony Zeus GOLD EVERGREEN 2020-12-10 ⋅ US-CERT ⋅ FBI, MS-ISAC, US-CERT Alert (AA20-345A): Cyber Actors Target K-12 Distance Learning Education to Cause Disruptions and Steal Data PerlBot Shlayer Agent Tesla Cerber Dridex Ghost RAT Kovter Maze MedusaLocker Nanocore RAT Nefilim REvil Ryuk Zeus 2020-08-09 ⋅ F5 Labs ⋅ Debbie Walkowski, Remi Cohen Banking Trojans: A Reference Guide to the Malware Family Tree BackSwap Carberp Citadel DanaBot Dridex Dyre Emotet Gozi Kronos PandaBanker Ramnit Shylock SpyEye Tinba TrickBot Vawtrak Zeus 2020-07-17 ⋅ CERT-FR ⋅ CERT-FR The Malware Dridex: Origins and Uses Andromeda CryptoLocker Cutwail DoppelPaymer Dridex Emotet FriedEx Gameover P2P Gandcrab ISFB Murofet Necurs Predator The Thief Zeus 2020-02-25 ⋅ RSA Conference ⋅ Joel DeCapua Feds Fighting Ransomware: How the FBI Investigates and How You Can Help FastCash Cerber Defray Dharma FriedEx Gandcrab GlobeImposter Mamba Phobos Rapid Ransom REvil Ryuk SamSam Zeus 2020-01-01 ⋅ Secureworks ⋅ SecureWorks BRONZE WOODLAND PlugX Zeus Roaming Tiger 2020-01-01 ⋅ Secureworks ⋅ SecureWorks GOLD EVERGREEN CryptoLocker Pony Zeus 2019-12-19 ⋅ KrebsOnSecurity ⋅ Brian Krebs Inside ‘Evil Corp,’ a $100M Cybercrime Menace Dridex Gameover P2P Zeus Evil Corp 2017-11-02 ⋅ Anomali ⋅ Anomali Country Profile: Russian Federation Zeus 2017-05-15 ⋅ Secureworks ⋅ Counter Threat Unit ResearchTeam Evolution of the GOLD EVERGREEN Threat Group CryptoLocker Dridex Dyre Gameover P2P Murofet TrickBot Zeus GOLD EVERGREEN 2017-03-21 ⋅ Wired ⋅ Chad Hagen, Garrett M. Graff Inside the Hunt for Russia’s Most Notorious Hacker Gameover P2P Murofet Zeus 2014-07-02 ⋅ Trend Micro ⋅ Kervin Alintanahin, Ronnie Giagone KIVARS With Venom: Targeted Attacks Upgrade with 64-bit “Support” FakeWord KIVARS PLEAD Poison RAT Zeus 2012-12-24 ⋅ Contagio Dump ⋅ Mila Parkour Dec 2012 Linux.Chapro - trojan Apache iframer Chapro Zeus 2010-09-07 ⋅ S21sec ⋅ Mikel Gastesi ZeuS: The missing link Zeus 2010-08-01 ⋅ Contagio Dump ⋅ Mila Parkour Zeus Trojan Research Links Zeus 2010-07-24 ⋅ Sophos ⋅ James Wyke Why won’t my sample run? Zeus 2010-07-14 ⋅ Contagiodump Blog ⋅ Mila Parkour ZeuS Version scheme by the trojan author Zeus 2010-05-03 ⋅ Symantec ⋅ Karthik Selvaraj A Brief Look at Zeus/Zbot 2.0 Zeus 2010-04-26 ⋅ Symantec ⋅ Peter Coogan SpyEye’s "Kill Zeus" Bark is Worse Than its Bite https://malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de/details/win.zeus Page 2 of 3 Zeus 2010-04-19 ⋅ MalwareIntelligence ⋅ Jorge Mieres ZeuS on IRS Scam remains actively exploited Zeus 2010-03-15 ⋅ MalwareIntelligence ⋅ MalwareIntelligence New phishing campaign against Facebook led by Zeus Zeus 2010-03-10 ⋅ Secureworks ⋅ Don Jackson, Kevin Stevens ZeuS Banking Trojan Report Zeus 2010-02-20 ⋅ MalwareIntelligence ⋅ Jorge Mieres Facebook & VISA phishing campaign proposed by ZeuS Zeus 2010-02-02 ⋅ EternalTODO Blog ⋅ Jose Miguel Esparza ZeuS spreading via Facebook Zeus 2010-01-25 ⋅ Ernesto Martin Leveraging ZeuS to send spam through social networks Zeus 2010-01-01 ⋅ Mandiant ⋅ Ero Carrera, Peter Silberman State of Malware: Family Ties Bredolab Conficker Cutwail KoobFace Oderoor Poison Ivy Rustock Sinowal Szribi Zeus 2009-11-06 ⋅ Eternal Todo ⋅ Jose Miguel Esparza New ZeuS binary Zeus 2009-10-01 ⋅ Eternal Todo ⋅ Jose Miguel Esparza Detecting ZeuS Zeus 2009-07-11 ⋅ MalwareIntelligence ⋅ MalwareIntelligence Special!!! ZeuS Botnet for Dummies Zeus 2009-01-01 ⋅ Symantec ⋅ Eric Chien, Nicolas Falliere Zeus: King of the Bots Zeus 2006-11-13 ⋅ Secure Science Corporation ⋅ Micael Ligh Malware Case Study - ZeusMalware Zeus [TLP:WHITE] win_zeus_auto (20251219 | Detects win.zeus.) Source: https://malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de/details/win.zeus https://malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de/details/win.zeus Page 3 of 3