Trend Micro discovered him Lordfenix, a student who has created more than 100 different banking Trojans and other malicious tools since April 2013.
The experts better safetyof the company Trend Micro have discovered a 20-year-old Brazilian student who has developed and distributed more than 100 banking malware.
The new cyber criminal, who used the aliases 'Lord fenix', 'Hacker's Son' and 'Filho de Hacker' was selling each banking trojan for around US$300 dollars since 2013.
Trend Micro reported that the student began his activity by approaching interested parties in hacking forums, where he found the cooperation of other malware authors.
Since its inception, Lordfenix has "developed its skills" and consequently has grown its business by developing malware based on the needs of its customers.
Lord fenix began his activity by offering free versions of the fully-functional source code of the bank Trojan to the underground forum.
The free version worked to target customers of four Brazilian banks, including Bank of Brazil, Caixa, and HSBC Brazil.
The following model was profitable: Lordfenix offered further customization of the banking trojan to target other financial institutions.
«Lordfenix has since continued to develop and sell banking Trojans, one of which we have traced as TSPY_BANKER.NJH. This Trojan is able to identify whenever a user types any of their target bank's URLs. These include Banco de Brasil, Caixa, and HSBC Brasil."Said Trend Micro in its statement.
Over the years Lord fenix has improved its malware by adding further features such as protection against products security.
The Lord fenix malware is able to discover and terminate the GbpSV.exe process associated with the G-Buster Browser Defense software, a program security used by many Brazilian banks to protect their users.
