Anti-virus firm Kaspersky has discovered a new strain of the ZeuS virus, saying it had targeted financial institutions worldwide.

Kaspersky announced on its blog that the banking trojan’s latest form had targeted a total of 150 different banks & 20 payment systems worldwide; focusing on the infiltration of Online banking. In total, 15 countries have been attacked, including the United Kingdom, United States, Spain, Russia, Japan & Italy.

“In the fall of 2014, we discovered a new banking Trojan, which caught our attention for two reasons:

First, it is interesting from the technical viewpoint, because it uses a new technique for loading modules.
Second, an analysis of its configuration files has shown that the malware targets a large number of online-banking systems: over 150 different banks and 20 payment systems in 15 countries. Banks in the UK, Spain, the US, Russia, Japan and Italy make up the majority of its potential targets.”

Kaspersky Lab has named the new malware as Trojan-Banker.Win32.Chthonic.

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