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The hackers Eastern European origin using sophisticated computer viruses to suck up the savings of thousands of customers’ funds in banks in the UK.

The latest version of Zeus is not vicious virus has been detected by traditional firewalls is reported to have successfully steal 675 000 pounds from about 3,000 customers a British bank. Since July, the funds were stolen, either from the accounts of companies and individuals that can be accessed online.

The experts from the M86 Internet Security specializing in online crime problem reveals, the virus works by checking the amount of money in an account, then stole it, and covered their tracks by displaying a fake bank accounts to customers. Internet security company headquartered in California and England’s evil plan to disassemble it when it got into the server command thieves based in Eastern Europe and find a list of money transfers.

The experts were then create a report that describes the process of attack and inform either the police or the respective bank two weeks ago. They also warned that attacks would continue.

Zeus virus targeting bank accounts who appear first time in three years ago. The latest version, v3 Zeus, not only to steal login data, keywords, and details of the bank, but can also transfer money from the account as desired. “This is the most complex version of Zeus and the virus can not be detected by traditional security software.

The virus was also found not only in those areas “red light”, such as gambling sites or porn, but also in the more popular sites, such as search engines, blogs or news sites. Last year, the virus was found on a page ad in the New York Times.

M86 Security said, computer online bank customers contracted the virus from the official pages through the “holes” in Internet Explorer from Microsoft or the applications of Adobe Reader. Once the infected computer, including spyware Trojan viruses that hide in the computer user’s browser to connect to their bank accounts.

The virus will start to work when customers check their account and checking account number. If the account contains more than 800 pounds, the virus begins to move the money in secret to a temporary account, a customer account that is owned by an official who is also the hackers had been hijacked.

UK major banks declined to comment on the possibility of their clients are related to one of the victims of the Eastern European hackers were. UK Trade Organisation (United Kingdom Payments Administration) said that online banking crime victims increased 18 percent last year to 59.7 million pounds.

Conficker now has a rival. A new virus has been detected and started to replace the domination Conficker. The new virus named W32/Stuxnet. He spreads via USB-based storage devices and creates more and more computer hard drives full without cause.

It tried to take a position Conficker. Eset detect this virus on July 15 last and we can see that the potential distribution will be widened as the many months Conficker entrenched at the top.

Kaspersky Antivirus also has detected the virus and look at the possibility of expanding its distribution after first detected in the Siemens factory on July 14.

W32/Stuxnet exploits security holes in Microsoft’s system and appeared in the form of an icon file with extension. Lnk. Uniquely, he was able to masquerade as an official program that has a security certificate from Realtek.
New presence felt when the computers hit their impact: the more disk management without cause.