On Wednesday 07 October 2009, shirish शिरीष wrote: > in-line :- > > On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 15:12, narendra sisodiya > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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/ > > There have been quite few stories about ATM's and windows and > insecurity in past as well. They just need to be documented more > properly. > > > ---------------------------------- > > 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_a > >tm_machines > > I know about these but as said before, there are many more. > > > Some more Info > > ----------------------- > > * 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 > > I checked out the blog post and saw the pics. From the pics. one > cannot say whether it has GNU/Linux or MS Windows or Solaris or > whatever . > > <snipped> > > > 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.
Including an Indian bank which had more than 800 machines infected with a trojan. Fortunately it could not break out of the network, and at least according to the bank no information was stolen.The trojan was stupid in constantly trying to phone home and was discoverd after a several 100 machines were infected and started chewing the meagre vsat bandwidth. -- Rgds JTD _______________________________________________ network mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
