The New Banking Trojan to Make Havoc of Your Bank Account

By Dipankar Das, Gaea News Network
Sunday, November 29, 2009

trojan_horse_400px URLzone Trojan, the recently invented Trojan is very technology savvy and advanced Malware which is found by Finjan Software. It can tamper your bank pages and empty your account.  The sophisticated command-and-control feature allows the hacker to conduct clandestine transaction of your bank account. RSA researchers says that this malware uses several techniques to find those machines that have been installed by investigators and law
enforcement, and they are impossible to fool till a few days back. The malware figure out an innocent victim who had money transfer from a hacked computer. As per the latest security report, 400 genuine accounts have been hacked by using this malware.

Although other Banking Trojan is already there and are responsible for the manipulation of many accounts. URLzone is a newer generation of sophisticated malware. The sophisticated hacker uses a Trojan horse program installed on the
victim’s machine that changes html coding before it’s displayed in the
user’s browser. As a result of which it either deletes evidence of a money transfer
transaction completely from a bank statement, or manipulates  the amount of
money transfers and balances. As per the Finjan Software, the banking Trojan infected more than 6,400 computers last month alone and was clearing out $17,500 per day. You can find more information at cybercrime intelligence report that was written by Finjan’s Malicious Code Research Center.

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