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.
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- 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 ...
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Permalink Reply by Central Scrutinizer on
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The Fecebook crowd deserves the very best ;)
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Permalink Reply by music71 on
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think you james for telling me this;i think this is what they tryed to do to me 3 weeks ago!
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Permalink Reply by Dave Phillips on
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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.
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Permalink Reply by TheLasersShadow on
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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.
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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
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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)
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yeppers, usually stick the comodo and their chrome-based comodo browser along w/ Malwarebytes on most peoples stuff....great free stuff ;)
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I have the Trend Micro Platinum coverage I assume this works just as well as other suggested here?
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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 ;)
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Permalink Reply by Amaterasu Solar on
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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.
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