FBI investigating "virus-like infection" trying to steal passwords at 1200 banks, including the world's largest, according to the Washington Post article titled "Virus Targeting Banks (washingtonpost.com)"
According to an AP feed found at The WorldLink.com the virus is not directly attacking the bank's computers, but is hitting consumer's computers, looking for bank web addresses that match those in its software. If it finds a match, it grabs consumer's passwords and emails it to ten email addresses, presumably the perpetrators', says the story.
Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center distributed information from the Office of Homeland Security to its client banks and is working with the FBI.
Network Associates Inc. BugBear.B info
Hmmmm ... will this need to be reported to California residents, per Calif. S.B. 1386?
Posted by dougsimpson at June 11, 2003 10:31 AM | TrackBack