Zeus Trojan Raids UK Bank Accounts
British security firm, M86 has recently announced that it has uncovered evidence that the Zeus Trojan recently assaulted about 3,000 customers’ bank accounts in one bank in the United Kingdom. About $ 1 million are estimated to have been stolen from account holders at the bank last month.
Concerns are growing stronger as the number of successful attacks on a wide range of UK banks continues to rise since the spring of this year.
Last Friday, Trusteer warned people that more than 100,000 computers had been infected with the Zeus Trojan undetectable versions.
A month earlier, it was found that the Trojan Zeus had attacked 15 U.S. banks with verification systems SecureCode credit card for holders of Visa and Mastercard.
According to the M86, criminals exploit the vulnerabilities in applications like Adobe Reader, Internet Explorer and Java. visitors with unpatched vulnerabilities have been found with the trojan through ads on the websites of imitation.
Consumers are wondering how to protect against these attacks in the future. The company recommends using the browser sandbox and virtualization as an option. However, it is clear that banks will have to start implementing a better control of fraud.
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