Trojan Targets Commercial Bank Accounts
SecureWorks has made public information about a botnet that is behind a man-in-the-middle attack on commercial banking customers. According to NeworkWorld, the attack is hitting customers is the US, UK, Spain and Italy.
The attack uses a Trojan spread by an iFrame exploit which launches a man-in-the-middle attack.
If the attacker succeeds in getting the Trojan malware onto the victim's computer, he can piggyback on a session of online banking without even having to use the victim's name and password. The infected computer communicates back to the Trojan's command-and-controller exactly which bank the victim has an account with. It then automatically feeds code that tells the Trojan how to mimic actual online transactions with a particular bank to do wire transfers or bill payments
The U.S. Secret Service is investigating.
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