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Security threat targets online banking customers
Thursday, 1 July 2004 14:09 ESTInternet banking customers have been warned of a new security threat which uses a browser add-on to steal login information for nearly 50 banking sites, including Barclays and HSBC. The malicious file, which appears to be spreading via a pop-up ad, appears on the heels of an attack that used compromised servers on major e-commerce websites to infect fully-patched IE browsers, according to security experts. The fact that Microsoft has not yet released a patch for the bug should lead IT managers to seriously consider switching their users away from IE, at least temporarily, according to some security experts.
The latest threat takes the form of a Browser Help Object (BHO), a helper file that allows developers to customise IE. In recent months, hackers have used BHOs to install spyware on a user's PC. The add-ons are so closely integrated with IE that they are difficult to detect and remove, and are not caught by anti-virus programs such as Norton Antivirus.
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