A malicious program that installs itself through a pop-up can read keystrokes and steal passwords when victims visit any of nearly 50 targeted banking sites, security researchers warned on Tuesday. The malicious program is reportedly able to gain access to your computer through Internet Explorer.
“If (the program) recognizes that you are on one of those sites, it does keystroke logging,” said Sachs, director of the Internet Storm Center, a site that monitors network threats. Even though all financial sites use encryption built into the browser to protect log-in data, the Trojan horse program can capture the information before it gets encrypted by the browser software. “The browser does not encrypt data between your keyboard and computer. It’s encrypting it (when it goes) out onto the Web.”
Source: News.com
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