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Kronos (malware)
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Kronos was a type of banking Windows malware first reported in 2014.
History
It was developed as a followup to the UPAS Kit which has been released in 2012.[1] It was sold for $7,000.[2]
Similar to Zeus,[3] it was focused on stealing banking login credentials from browser sessions via a combination of keylogging and web injection.[4] In 2015, its attacks were focused on British banks.[2][1]
In August 2017, British security researcher Marcus Hutchins (aka 'MalwareTech'), previously notable for his involvement stopping the May 2017 WannaCry ransomware attack,[5] was arrested by the FBI whilst visiting the United States.[6] He was alleged to have created the software in 2014, and to have sold it in 2015 via the AlphaBay forums.[7][8] Hutchins later admitted to being paid to work on Kronos and its predecessor UPAS Kit (named after the toxic Upas tree) as the main developer between 2011 and spring 2015.[1]
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