Online Banking Threat Bypassing Up-to-Date Anti-Viruses

There is an online banking Trojan out there that is bypassing up-to-date anti-virus programs as much as 77% of the time, according to security company
Zeus infects computers and waits for the user to log onto a list of targeted banks and financial institutions, before proceeding to steal the user's credentials, which are then sent to a remote server in real time. If that wasn't enough, it can modify web pages from a bank's servers in the user's browser and ask for personal information, such as card numbers, PIN numbers, passwords, etc.

Here are some numbers from Trusteer, collected from consumer PCs one day this month:



Perhaps the most disturbing part of Trusteer's findings is not that Zeus is bypassing up-to-date anti-virus programs so frequently, but that the majority of infections appear to be occurring on up-to-date machines.



Trusteer's findings stem from a sample of more than 10,000 users of the Rapport browser security service, whose machines were infected with the Zeus Trojan. The company's full report on the issue is available