Craig Burton

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A Trojan horse dubbed the “hackdoor” is causing chaos among customers of 12 global banks, including the National Australia Bank. Besides scaring them with a hoax email that purports that the bank in question is on the verge of bankruptcy, and that many accounts had been closed and ATMs shut down, the fraudsters encouraged them to click on a link that would help them check if their balance was safe. And you know the rest – the sensitive banking information entered would be transferred to the hackers’ server, to be misused for their nefarious purposes.

The Australia-based Websense Labs, which was the first to discover the malicious code, has said that users of Internet Explorer (IE) and Firefox were at risk. The Trojan’s MO is to monitor IE sessions, and as soon as users access the websites of any of the 12 banks, a window that resembles the bank’s login page pops up. Websense manager Joel Camissar says the Trojan remains

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Just think if all of these accounts use biometrics (fingerprinting) as security to their bank accounts. Your fingerprint would be comprimised forever. Unless you can somehow change your fingerprint.