The Zloy team is one of the organized criminal hacker crews involved in selling a wide variety of malware including the ZeuS trojan. Their members have included Terminator, Forall, PrikOL, Lev, System, Venomix, !lusion. They also maintain their own dedicated forum at http://forum.zloy.bz which includes a new piece of malware in competition with ZeuS called Spy Eye.

Figure 1: screenshot of SpyEye user interface by MarketIntelligence

Spy Eye is a financial trojan designed to compete with ZeuS in the lucrative crimeware market. It currently sells for $500 WMZ, which is the Web Money equivalent of $500 U.S. Dollars. It’s a very sophisticated and stable application, coded in C++, and operates invisibly on the infected host machine (i.e., not viewable in processes, autorun, or hidden files).

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