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  • Last month, for example, U.K. police announced arrests that included a Latvian and a Lithuanian living in Briton in connection with malicious software called SpyEye that is designed to steal victims' personal data.

    Sony Brings In High-Tech Sleuths Nick Wingfield 2011

  • One Russian botnet known as SpyEye is going a step further in a move akin to the old assembly language game Core War.

    OmniNerd VnutZ 2010

  • Verizon said at least one other "major communications company" was targeted by the SpyEye attack, but declined to identify the firm.

    msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines 2011

  • SpyEye is a copycat of the powerful Zeus Trojan horse that has been successfully used in massive electronic banking heists, including a series of thefts the FBI warned about recently that

    msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines 2011

  • The security industry had suspected since October that the hackers behind ZeuS, which has been used to hack the websites of Bank of America and NASA, were abandoning their creation and sending the leftover codes to the creators of SpyEye.

    NEWS.com.au | Top Stories 2011

  • Consumers whose computers were infected with the SpyEye Trojan horse program would have been redirected to a Web site controlled by criminals after they logged into Verizon Wireless' website, according to Israel-based security firm Trusteer.

    msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines 2011

  • Advanced forms of malware such as the Zeus and SpyEye Trojans can silently capture and exfiltrate a wide variety of data and credentials contained on enterprise endpoints, including proprietary information such as legal documents, healthcare records and corporate secrets.

    unknown title 2011

  • The two most forbidding pieces of spyware on the net, SpyEye and ZeuSTwo, are believed to be teaming up to form a hybrid being hailed as SpyZeuS - and security analysts have said companies and users should be on their guard.

    NEWS.com.au | Top Stories 2011

  • While recognizing that the Zeus bot kit is still "the most established" crimeware kit on the underground economy, SpyEye, which was first observed in Dec. 2009 and retails for roughly

    eWeek Security Watch 2010

  • "If the use of SpyEye takes off, it could dent Zeus bot herds and lead to retaliation from the creators of the Zeus crimeware toolkit," Coogan said.

    eWeek Security Watch 2010

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