Cybercriminals Use Zeus Trojan to Target Job Seekers With Mule Recruitment Ads

Researchers have found a version of Zeus using man-in-the-browser techniques to present visitors to job hunting site CareerBuilder.com with an ad user should ignore because it's a mule for recruitment site.

These ads are made to entice descriptions of easy money from a simple work-at-home jobs that lure job seekers to contact the employer to unknowingly serve as the money laundering component of a cyber crime gang.  This week, federal authorities have charges wight people for being part of a money laundering operation that was involved in the attempt to theft over $15 million from banking customer in the U.S.

Employment website noticed that they were being used for this type of operations, they are offering easy ways for users to report suspicious ads.  They have also created security teams to detect and remove these ads from their websites.