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A new Trojan, dubbed the Trojan Silentbanker, been discovered which seizes bank information before it has been encrypted, it has been reported.
Silentbanker works by intercepting the information from online banking transactions, which normally utilise a secure two-factor authentication process , and then advances the stolen data to a central attacker database, PC World reports.
It is able to breach the checks by changing the victim's bank account details to those of an account affiliated to the attacker.
In this way, money is mistakenly transferred into the accounts of the attackers by the users, who unknowingly enter their second authentication password.
Liam O'Murchu of Symantech said: "The scale and sophistication of this emerging banking Trojan is worrying, even for someone who sees banking Trojans on a daily basis.
"This Trojan downloads a configuration file that contains the domain names of over 400 banks. Not only are the usual large American banks targeted but banks in many other countries are also targeted, including France, Spain, Ireland, the UK, Finland, Turkey - the list goes on."
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