Facebook Malware That Drains Your Bank Account
Tuesday, June 04, 2013 11:20 AMIn case you needed further evidence that the White Hats are losing the war on cybercrime, a six-year-old so-called Trojan horse program that drains bank accounts is alive and well on Facebook.
Zeus is a particularly nasty Trojan horse that has infected millions of computers, most of them in the United States. Once Zeus has compromised a computer, it stays dormant until a victim logs into a bank site, and then it steals the victim’s passwords and drains the victim’s accounts. In some cases, it can even replace a bank’s Web site with its own page, in order to get even more information– such as a Social Security number– that can be sold on the black market.
The Trojan, which was first detected in 2007, is only getting more active.
Business Insider Australia
- Malware That Drains Your Bank Account Thriving on Facebook
New York Times (blog) - by Nicole Perlroth - 44 minutes agoIn case you needed further evidence that the White Hats are losing the war on cybercrime, a six-year-old Trojan horse that drains your bank ...
Replies to This Discussion
-
Permalink Reply by Central Scrutinizer on
-
The Fecebook crowd deserves the very best ;)
-
-
Permalink Reply by music71 on
-
think you james for telling me this;i think this is what they tryed to do to me 3 weeks ago!
-
-
Permalink Reply by Dave Phillips on
-
How do you identify it and what app or action loads it in the first place, putting the story out there with no solution is a bit short sighted.
-
-
Permalink Reply by TheLasersShadow on
-
Avast anti-virus is free and good, pair it with Comodo firewall (free) with HIP's turned on to safe mode, firewall turned to custom setting.
-
-
-
malbytes,(malware) and Comodo(virus) do nicely for free chit
http://www.malwarebytes.org (look 4 free version)
Note: when installing it, you will of course go thru clicking a bunch of "OK's", the end one will have 3 check boxes- Free trial,Updates, & Start...uncheck the "Free trial" one so the trial timer isnt started (think its 30 or 60 days)
After the install and updates, you will have a free version, albeit a "manual" version (Pay version cleans automatically, only diff)
IMO, beats the hell outta spybot jimbo, & finds stuff that hi-$ norton doesn't seem to catch
repeat virus-clean biz has been cut 2/3's actually...WTF was I thinking???...dohhhh
I actually use MS Essentials for AV (its free), that thing kicks a trojans ass in milliseconds
-
-
-
When I clean PC's I usually use a battery of scanners, MalwareBytes is good. Also Comodo Killswitch offers tools to find startup items, monitor network connections etc. (free)
-
-
-
yeppers, usually stick the comodo and their chrome-based comodo browser along w/ Malwarebytes on most peoples stuff....great free stuff ;)
-
-
-
I have the Trend Micro Platinum coverage I assume this works just as well as other suggested here?
-
-
-
Not familiar with it Dave, is it finding stuff??...Computer running ok?? may want to compliment that w/ a malware program such as the above mentioned. ya can always try it and see if it finds anything ;)
-
-
Permalink Reply by Amaterasu Solar on
-
Gotta love the Hotel Califacebook (You can check out any time You like but You can never leave)...
Yup. VERY glad I never checked in.
-
-
-
-
"Destroying the New World Order"
THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING THE SITE!
Latest Activity
- Top News
- Everything
What is Area 2 and What Goes on There?
We have all heard of Area 51 and S-4, along with such terms as Water Town, Papoose Lake,…See More
STRANGE THINGS HAPPENING IN YELLOWSTONE
It’s not the fact that Yellowstone National Park sits atop a super volcano that hasn’t erupted in…See More
Austrian police raid house of man who leaked Israeli ambassador video making genocidal comments
In a new ITV documentary, Breaking Ranks: Inside Israel’s War, former Israeli soldiers describe how Gaza civilians were killed, often without warning, in an ...
WARHAMMER 40,000 | 1980's GRIMDARK MOVIE
WARHAMMER 40,000 | 1980's GRIMDARK MOVIEThis is a Concept Movie Trailer made with the help of AI. This video is created purely for fun and out of curiosity a...
"Tavistock Timing"
The Ringside View
Down in the streets where the animals meetWhere tear gas flies and people get beatWhere…See More
Is America on the brink of a Dire Emergency
You might know if you have remained informed that America has been under asymmetric warfare for…See More
Sustenance
"Bacon health to the nation for one and all and stealth for operations elsewhere in the war. Yip a…"
The Consequence of Loneliness: Another Missing Person Case
Chapter I“Unit 7, Unit 7. Do you read? This is dispatch!”“This is Unit 7, over!” Deputy Patterson…See More
© 2025 Created by truth.
Powered by
