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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. 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