First The Flame And Now Tinba

The latest malware news has been featuring The Flame. A malware made famous for its complexity, sophistication, and massive size – a full 20MB.

Just a day later we meet Tinba, a banking trojan that performs MITM in-browser attacks. Whereas Flame is 20MB Tinba is 1/1024th the size, 20KB.

Just to put some perspective on things.

Apparently Tinba is “The worlds smallest banking trojan” but it’s plenty dangerous, hijacking the browser and stealing information from banking sites.

Both of the malicious programs attempt to steal or spy on the user but they go about it in vastly different ways.

sources:

https://www.csis.dk/en/csis/news/3566/