Russian cybercriminals steal data from five big US banks
Posted by: Timothy Weaver on 10/07/2014 03:16 PM
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The Qbot (aka Qakbot) botnet, according to security researchers, has infected 500,000 systems. The botnet "sniffed" a whopping 800,000 online banking transactions.
The victims included five of the US biggest banks, resulting in the account data being stolen for 800,000 online banking transactions.
The assault was laucnhed from compromised WordPress sites using drive-by-download style attack tactics. Windows XP clients comprised 52 per cent of the infected systems. 52 per cent of the infected systems in the cybercrime group’s botnet were running XP.
The researchers said online banking credentials for banks in Europe were also targeted by the Russian-speaking cybercrime group behind the scam.
The victims included five of the US biggest banks, resulting in the account data being stolen for 800,000 online banking transactions.
The assault was laucnhed from compromised WordPress sites using drive-by-download style attack tactics. Windows XP clients comprised 52 per cent of the infected systems. 52 per cent of the infected systems in the cybercrime group’s botnet were running XP.
The researchers said online banking credentials for banks in Europe were also targeted by the Russian-speaking cybercrime group behind the scam.
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