Stanislav Lisov, a 33-year-old Russian national, has admitted in a US court to being the mastermind behind the sophisticated NeverQuest banking trojan.
NeverQuest (also known as Vawtrak and Snifula) is a family of trojan horses that have been in circulation since 2012, generating a significant amount of income for its creator by gaining unauthorized access to online bank accounts.
Victims would have their computers infected by a variety of methods – such as poisoned email attachments (such as Word documents or .ZIP files) claiming to be related to failed package deliveries, or by visiting websites harbouring malicious Flash redirection code that would take their browsers to third-party pages containing the Angler Exploit kit that would then drop NeverQuest onto their systems.
