Summary: Windows Trojan still empties people’s bank accounts
NOW that Microsoft gets close to the banking sector (with very limited
success), one ought to understand the effect of Windows on banks. From
yesterday’s news:
A sophisticated Trojan horse program designed to empty bank
accounts has a new trick up its sleeve: It lies to investigators about
where the money is going.
First uncovered by Finjan Software last week, the URLzone Trojan
is already known to be very advanced. It rewrites bank pages so that
the victims don’t know that their accounts have been emptied, and it
also has a sophisticated command-and-control interface that lets the
bad guys pre-set what percentage of the account balance they want to
clear out.
read full story at -- http://boycottnovell.com/2009/10/07/windows-trojan-bank/
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Related Blogs to be read
* http://geek2live.blogspot.com/2009/08/windows-fails-with-atm-machine.html
*
http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/hackers_targeting_windows_xpbased_atm_machines
Some more Info
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* Linux is also finding some reception in the ATM marketplace. An
example of this is Banrisul, the largest bank in the south of Brazil,
which has replaced the MS-DOS operating systems in its ATMs with
Linux. Banco do Brasil is also migrating ATMs to Linux. source :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_teller_machine
* Last year when i visited Karachi, I talked about Linux+Gtk-based
ATM machines being actually deployed and used in my blog. Plenty of
people asked me for any pictures but I didn't have any at that time.
No worries, here you go: source
http://zee-nix.blogspot.com/2008/03/linuxgtk-based-atm.html
* It is to be noted that most of the ATMs are windows based and they
should use Linux for Virus free and Trojan Free ATMs. We should ask
by RTI that how many ATM do use Windows over It and we should bycoott
them.
My idea is the design a penguin Safety Logo "Penguin with text says
Penguin Safety Inside" and we should paste to those ATM which has
GNU/Linux OS over it. May be similar thought to guide user to choose
the proper ATM.
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