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Keylogging Used To Catch Bank Crackers

Posted by Zonk on from the valuable-bits dept.

An anonymous reader writes "BBC News is reporting that the British police National High Tech Crime Unit has foiled an attempted fraud by hackers using keylogging software. The London branch of the Sumitomo Mitsui bank of Japan was the target, and a person has been arrested in Israel after being identified as the recipient of an attempted electronic transfer of UKP13.9m."

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  1. Re:Too much by lecithin · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Yea, but getting away with it once, is all you need for the rest of your life. I wonder how many have succeeded that we will never hear about.

    Kinda like Enron right?

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  2. WTF is wrong with our Slashdot editors? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I have a suggestion: how about a rating for editors? If editors fuck up too often others should be given the chance to do the job properly.

    This is just getting too embarrasing and it's damaging Slashdot's reputation.

    And yes I must be new here.
    Doesn't make it any less true.

  3. Question about Key Logging software by ReadbackMonkey · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If I type my password into a txt file surrounded by a bunch of gibberish, i.e.

    diowengiw03821-13kd98password8990830209keivli

    Would key-logging software be able to find my password if I cut and paste the relevant data into the appropriate field when I want to enter the password?

    Basically, where does the key-logging software sniff the bits? Is it off the bus from the keyboard to the processor, or does it sniff it off the processor?

    Just curious

    1. Re:Question about Key Logging software by InsaneCreator · · Score: 2, Interesting

      The early trojans (like NetBus & pals) would copy the passwords from input fields when you typed them in. I'm not sure how things work nowdays, since newer versions of Windows don't allow this anymore.

  4. Re:How would they do this? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting
    One more possibility:
    • Clueless bank manager installs key-logging software on their own computers "for security"; and fails to keep the logs secure
    I've helped an identity theft victim who had that happen.... his employer had a key-logger on all the PCs; and didn't keep the logs securely. Someone stole the logs and got credit card and other information from the employees.
  5. Re:Precedence rules. by Nemi · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Actually I believe this would be the preferred way of arranging the sentence:
    hackers using keyloggers were foiled by police.
    This places the modifier after a single subject, completely removing ambiguity.
  6. Re:Abbreviation correction by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Actually the problem is UK can easily be mistaken as a short form of Ukraine, as you will discover if you routinely receive long distance packages - writing "United Kingdom" or "Great Britain" or even "England" will get it delivered, as will the ISO code GB, but if you write UK there's about a 5% chance it will go via the Ukraine (who will realise that it's actually a British address and hopefully forward it), depending on where it's sent from.