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General Topics, Questions & Support => Free-for-all => Topic started by: djkimmel on September 30, 2009, 10:48:33 PM
Gangster's ATM: New 'Trojan horse' opens your bank account to crooks
Sam Gustin
Sep 30th 2009 at 12:30PM
Call it an ATM for cyber-crooks -- and the cash could come out of your account.
Web security sleuths have found a new type of "Trojan horse" that steals your bank log-in name and password, then proceeds to drain money from your account -- while you're logged in.
The new Trojan, called URLZone, features a number of innovations not widely seen in Internet crime. For example, the Trojan can estimate precisely how much money to steal based on how much dough you have in your account, and can even siphon money in small increments to evade detection. More on Daily Finance... (http://www.dailyfinance.com/2009/09/30/gangsters-atm-new-trojan-horse-opens-your-bank-account-to-cr/)
Read the cyber intelligence report from FinJan (http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/threatlevel/2009/09/finjan-cyberintel_sept_2009-sf.pdf) (must have Adobe pdf reader (http://get.adobe.com/reader/) / plugin installed)