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Alert: Highly Sophisticated Large Scale Cyberheist Targets Customer Funds at Major U.S. Banks : An international gang of cyber crooks is plotting a major campaign to steal money from the online accounts of thousands of consumers at 30 or more major US banks, security firm RSA warned.   In an advisory Thursday, RSA said it has information suggesting the gang plans to unleash a little-known Trojan program to infiltrate computers belonging to US banking customers and to use the hijacked machines to initiate fraudulent wire transfers from their accounts.   If successful, the effort could turn out to be one of the largest organized banking-Trojan operations to date, Mor Ahuvia, cybercrime communications specialist with RSA's FraudAction team, said today. The gang is now recruiting about 100 botmasters, each of whom would be responsible for carrying out Trojan attacks against US banking customers in return for a share of the loot, she said.

If you are not blocking chrome updates, you will be automatically patched very soon. No need to wait for the monthly 'patch tuesday'.  Google has fixed  a hole in its Chrome browser  that earned a white hat hacker $60,000 at the recent Pwnium 2 hacking contest.   The company released the fix for the vulnerability on Wednesday, around 10 hours after it was revealed at the Pwnium competition at  'Hack in the Box 2012' contest  in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on Tuesday. The hacker — who goes by the name of 'pinkie pie' — found the vulnerability in the browser by combining two separate exploits, and netted a cool $60,000 for his discovery, as well as a free Chromebook.

Alert: Highly Sophisticated Large Scale Cyberheist Targets Customer Funds at Major U.S. Banks : An international gang of cyber crooks is plotting a major campaign to steal money from the online accounts of thousands of consumers at 30 or more major US banks, security firm RSA warned.   In an advisory Thursday, RSA said it has information suggesting the gang plans to unleash a little-known Trojan program to infiltrate computers belonging to US banking customers and to use the hijacked machines to initiate fraudulent wire transfers from their accounts.   If successful, the effort could turn out to be one of the largest organized banking-Trojan operations to date, Mor Ahuvia, cybercrime communications specialist with RSA's FraudAction team, said today. The gang is now recruiting about 100 botmasters, each of whom would be responsible for carrying out Trojan attacks against US banking customers in return for a share of the loot, she said.

If you are not blocking chrome updates, you will be automatically patched very soon. No need to wait for the monthly 'patch tuesday'.  Google has fixed  a hole in its Chrome browser  that earned a white hat hacker $60,000 at the recent Pwnium 2 hacking contest.   The company released the fix for the vulnerability on Wednesday, around 10 hours after it was revealed at the Pwnium competition at  'Hack in the Box 2012' contest  in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on Tuesday. The hacker — who goes by the name of 'pinkie pie' — found the vulnerability in the browser by combining two separate exploits, and netted a cool $60,000 for his discovery, as well as a free Chromebook.