Trojan again on 20 minutes
The website of 20 Minuten does not come to rest. On Monday, malicious software was again distributed via the online portal of the free newspaper. This time it was not a hacker attack like last week but a contaminated network of an advertising provider.
was once again the target of a malware attack, according to the 20 Minuten website on Monday afternoon. The culprit was a contaminated network of an external advertising provider whose ads were embedded on 20minuten.ch. All ads from this provider were immediately deactivated, according to 20 Minuten.
The malicious software in question is a Trojan called Bedep. According to initial findings, only Windows systems are at risk, the report continues. Once Bedep is on the system, the tool tries to open further backdoors for attackers.
Hacker attack with e-banking Trojan horse
Malicious software had already been distributed via the 20 Minuten website on Thursday. According to the Federal Reporting and Analysis Center for Information Assurance (Melani), it was an e-banking Trojan called Gozi. It attempts to access users' bank accounts.
This had come to the attention of the federal administration. It had detected various attempted infections. However, its defense systems were able to fend off the repeated attacks. For security reasons, however, the 20 Minuten site was temporarily blocked for employees. Other companies followed suit.
After the attack on 20minuten.ch, Tamedia had stressed that only users accessing the website from their desktop computer were affected. At no time had there been any danger from the mobile 20minuten apps. This is also the case with the latest malware attack, according to 20minuten.ch. (SDA)
