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A new variant of the Zeus trojan has been hard at work in the UK, in an online banking scam which has cost the customers of one unnamed UK bank £675,000 in unauthorised withdrawals over the last month.
The malware infects customers’ computers from a website (sometimes an unaware legitimate site, or via an advert link) and siphons off the relevant passwords when they log on to their online banking account.
However, this new and more sophisticated version of Zeus actually checks the balance of the account, and transfers the money to mule accounts itself if there’s enough there. It’s specifically designed to work around anti-fraud alarm systems, scarily, security firm M86 security reports (via Cnet).
M86 reckons that some 3000 bank accounts have been compromised at the one single bank, which it wouldn’t name. The money is transferred to eastern European cyber-criminals.
Apparently the attacks are still happening, although the authorities are obviously now working to shut down the operation completely.
I have had three e-mails today telling me about ‘Bank Accounts’ with Banks I’m not even with just delete any suspect e-mail never open it.
As to the ‘Trojan Virus’ you can never put a stop to this because if your virus protection software doesn’t recognize it as suspect it will get into your system such Trojans are very simple to construct and that is the problem, as they are forever changing..
In the passed I have detected and shown large accountancy agencies the hidden Spy-ware lurking in their systems. In one case perhaps the worst, was one that had one of Russia’s best Spy-ware writers software programs running in their systems for over seven years. It was taking copies of all and every transaction and sending the details to preset e-mail addresses.
Signed Carl Barron Chairman of agpcuk