City Almost Loses 450K to Keylogger

SierraPete writes "The city of Carson, California (a suburb of Los Angeles) was the target of a 6-digit theft of cash. The LA Times reports that information taken from a keylogger was used to attempt to steal $450K from the city's treasury. Quick work by the city froze most of the funds, but it drives home the importance of keeping good anti-spyware and anti-virus software updated on both corporate systems as well as systems being used from home."

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I've found keylogger cache files

[spywhere]

Before I 'retired' to fix home PCs, I was the alpha geek on a Help Desk.
A guy called, infested with spyware... I started poking around, and found a text file. Before I continued, I called the Help Desk manager over, and put the client on speaker:

"Um, sir, do you bank at Bank of America?"
"Yeah, why?"
"Is your password 'Snoopy67'?"

Since then, I've found a few dozen files with clear-text keylogger yields... and thousands of log files filled with coded stuff that could be anything.