Banking Trojan
Also known as: Banker, Banking malware
A banking trojan is malware designed to steal financial credentials and manipulate online banking sessions, often via web injects and form grabbing. Many banking trojans also incorporate infostealer and loader capabilities, blurring the line between malware categories.
What is a banking trojan?
Banking trojans specialise in financial fraud — capturing banking credentials, injecting fake fields into banking sites (web injects), and intercepting transactions. Families such as those in the Zeus lineage pioneered these techniques.
Overlap with infostealers
Modern banking trojans frequently bundle general infostealer features and loader functionality, so a single infection can yield banking access, broad credential theft, and additional malware delivery.
VantaPrism focuses on the credential and session exposure such malware produces, helping financial-sector teams gauge account-takeover and fraud risk.
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