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rb2d2 · Sep 25, 2004

Sneaky Trojan Horse Swipes Data on 500,000 Bank Accounts

The next time you upload pictures from your birthday bash or post comments to your favorite social networking site, you may be doing more than putting your reputation on the line and online. You may also be exposing your bank account data to a pretty sneaky Trojan horse.

A Trojan horse called Sinowal, which to date has gathered more than 500,000 online bank accounts, may be one of the most advanced and dangerous security risks on the Web, according to Internet security firms that track these sorts of things.

Apparently devised in Eastern Europe – most likely Russia – the Sinowal Trojan and its variants stealthily gather banking data by waiting for unsuspecting users to browse commonly trafficked Web destinations, including popular social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace. A user doesn't need to click on a pop-up window or do anything else traditionally seen as risky -- the Trojan downloads to the user's computer in the background automatically.

Shocked