Trojan Horse Spies On Web Banking

KingFishKingFish
edited November 2004 in Science & Tech
Security experts say they've discovered a Trojan horse that records e-banking user details and Web surfing habits.
Antivirus company Sophos is warning that the Banker-AJ Trojan is targeting online customers of British banks such as Abbey, Barclays, Egg, HSBC, Lloyds TSB, Nationwide and NatWest. The Trojan affects computers running Microsoft Windows. The company said that once installed, the Trojan waits for users to visit their online banking Web sites, then captures passwords and takes screenshots of the session. The information is relayed to the hackers behind the ploy, who use the data to steal money. "It's the next generation of phishing attacks," said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant for Sophos. "These rely on people going to real, legitimate sites. Once the Trojan determines that you've gone there, it starts taking keystroke logs and snaps shots of machines and sends it back to hackers."
Source: ZDNet

Comments

  • beegirl
    edited November 2004
    So how do I know if I've been superphished?? What do I do to get rid of the trojan.... if I have it?
  • beegirl
    edited November 2004
    So how do I know if I've been superphished?? What do I do to get rid of the trojan.... if I have it?
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