Gartner - Banks Should Improve Security to Avoid New Trojan Attack

The analyst company Gartner has recently cautioned that banks should strengthen their internet security, considering that a newly risen password stealing Trojan is targeting internet banking sites.

A couple of days back, security researchers at BitDefender reported of the malware they had detected on the Web. Posing as a Mozilla Firefox plug-in, the Trojan becomes active every time a user accesses Firefox and sieves data that he or she sends to over 100 internet banking sites. The login credentials entered are transmitted to a URL whose domain as well as hosting server is located in Russia, said the researchers.

The researchers said that the new malware attack sh...

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