Dozens of Portuguese users affected by fraud ... - TeK.sapo

Dozens of surfers Portuguese were affected by a new online fraud that roubaa data access to banking services on the Internet. The malware known as Hesperbot placed Portugal in the center of an international fraud which also affected Turkey, Czech Republic, Thailand and the United Kingdom.

In a phishing scam “very credible” sent via email, says the Eset where hackers were made to spend the operator Portugal Telecom, users were taken to install malware disguised through some Internet addresses.

After hackers managed to gain access to all that the users wrote, could take photographs of the infected device’s screen, make recordings and intercept web traffic The Hesperbot yet configured a remote connection that allowed access to the equipment of the Internet.

In addition to computers, users were led to installing a malicious application on the operating systems Android, Symbian and BlackBerry that could break some authentication processes in two steps.

According to security company in Portugal banks used as a cover for the scheme were the Millenium BCP , CGD, BPI and Santander Totta.

The “Portuguese variant” of the malware still had the ability to inject malicious code into the HTML pages accessed by banks of computers affected.

The malware was detected by security firm at the beginning of August in the Czech Republic. When investigating the ramifications of it found that other countries were being affected, where the most serious case is Turkey with dozens of users deceived.

Similar to other known malware – such as Zeus and SpyEye – the how it operates, Eset considers that Hesperbot represents a new strain of virus and is not a derivation of these threats. The scheme so far mounted can only act as a testing phase for an attack on a larger scale that may be being prepared, according to a researcher at Eset Mashable.

It is possible that the threat is still active or take other forms. Internet users are advised to carefully see emails from known entities – such as telecommunications operators and state services such as CTT – asking users to access a particular Web page Have Always pay attention to the file extension or attached to the links concerned.

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