subject: New trojan attacks of Internet banking, Alfa-Bank and VTB 24 [print this page] Discovered a new virus that attacks the customer only two Russian banks banks with well-developed online service Alfa-Bank and VTB 24.
Unlike viruses that steal passwords, access to client offices, a new trojan (Trojan.Hosts.1581 in the classification of Dr.Web, Trojan.Win32.Qhost in the classification of Kaspersky Lab) redirects to another site that looks identical to the original.
In the address bar displays the address of this site. Malicious sites are registered in Latvia on some hacker organization.
Trying to make a transaction, the client can transmit passwords hackers, after which the account is emptied. Representatives of the antivirus companies, appealed to both banks with a warning, but received no reply.
In Russia, such programs are migrated. They used to write, and Russian programmers, mostly for attacks on foreign banks. About a month ago, hackers reclassified these malicious programs for Russian banks, told reporters Sergei Golovanov, senior virus analyst at Kaspersky Lab.
In the VTB 24 edition reported that in each case decide on an individual basis. So far, it argued, only one client that has suffered from the actions of fraudsters, reported that the bank reimburse her stolen 30 thousand rubles. Other users Telebank complained about the weakness of the security system, then the bank decided to increase the security of remote channels.
In the "Alpha-bank" have refused to comment on the safety of internet banking.
Meanwhile, theft does not stop. The number affected by the virus can grow big, considering that "Alpha cliques" and "Telebank in the number of users are second only to the system of Internet banking Savings Bank, the newspaper notes.
New trojan attacks of Internet banking, Alfa-Bank and VTB 24
