This Christmas, banks were visited by the ghost of malware past: an ever nastier version of SpyEye that manages to hide fraudulent transactions from unsuspecting victims. Security vendor Trusteer last year found SpyEye targeting transactions at major UK banks. SpyEye is a tweak of the Zeus crimeware kit that grabs web form data within browsers. This year, right before the recent holiday season, Trusteer found a hopped-up version of SpyEye attacking banks in the U.S. and U.K. The new Trojan, instead of …
Pretty scary. But also probably a bit alarmist.
