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It’s now known to everybody that many computer
viruses have ulterior financial motives. Guardian, UK,
reported that a Russian gang has stolen more than €1million
from individual bank accounts in France, using "sleeper
bugs" to infect user computers. Using the virus,
the intruder can take charge and empty a bank account
in a matter of seconds.
This virus spreads via emails and can remain dormant
in the computer. It activates when the victim connects
to the online bank account and the virus steals usernames
and passwords and forwards them to the thieves. Then,
they pass customer’s savings to the accounts of
third parties, known as mules, who work as conduits
for money transfer in return of a dividend, up to 10%.
The syndicate used a fictitious American firm named
‘World Transfer’ for these operations.
A dozen Russian hackers behind the scam, mostly in
their twenties and several Ukrainians who controlled
them, have been arrested in Moscow and St Petersburg.
According to the authorities all the French victims
were trapped because they didn't have any proactive
antivirus software. “The financial motives of virus
is nothing new. While it’s vital to have an antivirus
solution to safeguard your personal information, one
needs to also make sure that the software is up-to-date,
in threat detection and prevention. Our solutions eScan
and MailScan use a combination of signature and heuristic
scanning to defeat existing viruses as well as disguised
or newer malice. Many new viruses are mutant variants
of earlier ones, and we employ a sophisticated algorithm
to catch them. After all, it’s about one’s
hard earned money!” Says Sulabh Mahant, Security
Analyst, MicroWorld.
Resolution
Timely updates of MicroWorld products will enable you
to keep off threats of this nature. In case of infections,
you can download our free virus and spyware scanning
toolkit ‘MWAV’ from our website.
The trial versions of the MicroWorld software can also
be downloaded from the same website.
MicroWorld
MicroWorld ( www.mwti.net ) are the developers of the
world's first Real-Time Anti-Virus and Content Security
software eScan for desktops and servers. Its communication
security software, MailScan is the first comprehensive
e-mail scanner for your SMTP/POP3 Mail Server. MicroWorld
Winsock Layer (MWL) is the revolutionary technology
underlying these products, powering them to several
certifications and awards by some of the most prestigious
testing bodies, notable among them being Virus Bulletin,
Checkmark, TUCOWS, Red Hat Ready, and Novell Ready.
Combining their powerful scanner with MWL technology,
MicroWorld solutions provide a Real-Time Proactive security
for your systems.
To learn more, kindly visit the website at http://www.mwti.net/
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