BitDefender, a global provider of internationally certified security solutions, warns against a new wave of malware attack, which targeted online banking passwords. In this new threat from the Internet are “Trojan.PWS.Chromelnject.A”, a malware application in the current case as Mozilla Firefox plug-in disguises. The plug-in itself is a Mozilla Firefox Under orders saved and each time you start the browser automatically.

‘Trojan.PWS.ChromeInject.A “it has targeted to access data from users apart, this in the context of online banking to its financial institution concerned. Affected are currently more than 100 banking Web sites such as bankofamerica.com, chase.com, halifax.co.uk, wachovia.com, paypal.com, e-gold.com, etc. computer systems of users who are infected with this trojan have to send their login information unintentionally to a Web site, similar as [censored] eex.ru. ” Both the domain name as well as the server is located somewhere in Russia, which is an indication of the origin of this e-Threats is.

“It is assumed,” said Harald Philipp, managing director of BitDefender GmbH, “that these short-term threat to online banking users by German banks expanding. We advise all users currently on special caution and recommend appropriate protective measures, because cyber criminals are increasingly also the international economic and financial crisis take advantage of a new malicious software in circulation. by our anti-virus specialists discovered Trojans illustrates the high degree of the current threat situation and documented the subtlety with which cyber criminals now proceed. ”

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