Experts at Sophos have warned computer users about a Trojan horse that helps hackers break into the bank accounts of customers of an Australian bank.
The Troj/IBank-A Trojan horse is designed to steal information from Internet customers of the National Australia Bank, which could allow hackers to break into accounts and steal substantial amounts of money.
Graham Cluley, Senior Technology Consultant for Sophos said,
"Once the Trojan has installed itself on a computer it lurks in the background waiting for the right moment to pounce. As soon as it sees the user is logging onto the National Australia Bank's web site it grabs their account id and password and sends it to remote hackers. More and more virus writers, phishers and hackers are focusing their attention on Internet banking customers - users who do not take care may be risking having their accounts emptied by these criminals.
At the moment we have not had a significant number of sightings of this particular Trojan horse, but all computer users should be running an up-to-date anti-virus as well as protecting their PC with firewall technology. This, combined with the safe computing practice of exercising caution over what you choose to run on your computer, can dramatically reduce the risks of these kind of attacks."
Although this particular Trojan horses only targets users of an Australian bank, Sophos warns that others have been seen which affect banking customers in other parts of the world.
|
|
Reader Comments: 0
