Silon

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Silon is a banking Trojan that was first detected in 2010. This malware infection is a highly localized malware infection that attempted to steal banking information from computers located in the United Kingdom. Regional malware infections such as Silon are not uncommon. A common example, in fact, are the many variants of the Zbot family of Trojans designed to target banks in Brazil, Peru or other South American countries. Although Silon's online presence has been highly reduced since 2010, PC security researchers have noticed new variants of Silon popping up since then, notably a dangerous variant named Tilon that surfaced in 2012. If you believe that your computer has been exposed to a Silon infection, ESG malware analysts advise safeguarding your online banking information. It is also important to use a reliable anti-malware tool to erase all traces of a Silon infection from an infected machine.
 
Silon is used to steal sensitive information such as account numbers and passwords for various popular banks. The fact that Silon is largely based in a single region makes this malware threat to be even harder to detect and remove. This is because region-based malware threats tend to pass undetected due to security software manufacturers either having other priorities or because they are not widespread enough to elicit a timely response. There are several variants of the Silon banking Trojan. These target computers in the United Kingdom. Although infections have popped up in other places, the presence of Silon in the United Kingdom is overwhelmingly disproportionate. For example, one variant of Silon, Silon.var2, appeared in 2010 in one out of every five hundred computers in the United Kingdom. Compare that number to its presence in the United States, where this Silon variant appeared in only one of every twenty thousand computers!
 

How Criminals Kept Silon Confined to the United Kingdom

The criminals behind the Silon outbreak in the United Kingdom used email lists with addresses based in the United Kingdom in order to distribute spam email messages containing this threat. Other tactics involve infecting popular regional websites so that they will redirect computer users towards attack websites or sending out social network spam containing content exclusive to a particular region. Fortunately, Silon's age works against Silon and most current security programs can easily detect and remove this malware threat from infected computers.

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