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Exclusive: Online bank-theft software grows more sophisticated

published Mon, Jun 18 2012 12:19 GMT
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Two of the most pervasive and dangerous types of software for stealing money from bank accounts have been improved and can now transfer money out automatically, without a hacker's supervision, researchers said. The latest variants of the widespread SpyEye and Zeus programs have already stolen as much as 13,000 Euros at a time from a single account and are in the early stages of deployment, according to investigators at Trend Micro Inc, a Japan-based security company that has many banks as customers. ...

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