Zeus in the Mobile

Discover Zitmo and its evolutions through time.

ZeuS is a well-known crimeware kit. Its purpose is to defraud users who perform online banking from an infected computer.;xNLx;;xNLx;Zitmo (Zeus In The Mobile), is an element of the Zeus crimeware. Its sole purpose is to intercept SMS messages sent by banks to customers making financial transactions online (in the jargon, mTAN codes), directly from the victims' mobile phones.

2010-09-01 00:00:00

SymbOS .A

This 1st version of Zitmo presented itself as a Nokia update and also carried a legitimate digital signature.

2011-01-01 00:00:00

SymbOS .B

The second Zitmo attack, in February 2011, targeted a much broader set of mobile devices: Symbian, Windows Phone and BlackBerry.

2011-02-01 00:30:00

WinCE .B

The WinCE variant showed very little difference with the original Symbian .A variant.

2011-02-01 00:30:00

BlackBerry .A

The BlackBerry version showed very little difference with the original Symbian .A version.

2011-05-01 12:30:00

Android .C

The 3rd Zitmo attack released Android variants of the trojan. These versions were far more primitive than their pairs.

2011-07-01 12:30:00

Android .D

Created nearly a year after the 1st Symbian/Zitmo trojan, Android/Zitmo only intercepts (and deletes) incoming SMS messages and is unable to receive commands from a C&C server.

2011-08-01 12:30:00

Android .A

The latest Android variants are now much more elaborate.

2012-06-01 12:30:00

Android .E

Android/Zitmo.E now not only intercepts incoming SMS, but they now can also receive C&C commands through SMS messages.

2012-07-01 12:30:00

BlackBerry .B

This BlackBerry variant shows very little differences with its predecessors.

2012-08-01 12:30:00

BlackBerry .C

The latest BlackBerry variant shows very little differences with its predecessors.

Zeus in the Mobile

Launch
Copy this timeline Login to copy this timeline 3d Game mode

Contact us

We'd love to hear from you. Please send questions or feedback to the below email addresses.

Before contacting us, you may wish to visit our FAQs page which has lots of useful info on Tiki-Toki.

We can be contacted by email at: hello@tiki-toki.com.

You can also follow us on twitter at twitter.com/tiki_toki.

If you are having any problems with Tiki-Toki, please contact us as at: help@tiki-toki.com

Close

Edit this timeline

Enter your name and the secret word given to you by the timeline's owner.

3-40 true Name must be at least three characters
3-40 true You need a secret word to edit this timeline

Checking details

Please check details and try again

Go
Close