New Trojan Unleashed, Intercepts Online Banking Info

PC World reports that a new Trojan program called Trojan.Silentbanker has been unleashed. In its story yesterday, the magazine offers this terrifying bit on how the Trojan works: “During a banking transaction, Silentbanker will change the user’s bank account details over to the attacker’s account, all the while mimicking what the user would expect to see from a typical banking transaction. Because users have no idea their account data has been changed, they then unknowingly send money to the attacker’s account after entering their second authentication password.” Read the full story here.