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Tinba Trojan Targets Major US Banks

Posted by samzenpus on from the protect-ya-neck dept.

An anonymous reader writes Tinba, the tiny (20 KB) banking malware with man-in-the-browser and network traffic sniffing capabilities, is back. After initially being made to target users of a small number of banks, that list has been amplified and now includes 26 financial institutions mostly in the US and Canada, but some in Australia and Europe as well. Tinba has been modified over the years, in an attempt to bypass new security protections set up by banks, and its source code has been leaked on underground forums a few months ago. In this new campaign, the Trojan gets delivered to users via the Rig exploit kit, which uses Flash and Silverlight exploits. The victims get saddled with the malware when they unknowingly visit a website hosting the exploit kit."

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  1. So close on the alliteration by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Tinba Trojan Targets Top Tender Traders?

  2. Re:Flash and Silverlight by BringsApples · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Is it the year of the Linux Desktop yet?

    It is at my house, like 3 or 4 years ago. Has been ever since. I'm happy to have windows at all the local businesses, because I do freelance IT work, and that's how the bills are paid. If everyone ran a linux desktop, they'd be forced to learn how computing works (and doesn't work), and I'd be out a big fat sum of money.

    But who the hell is using flash and/or silverlight at a bank? Of course this is why I don't do work for banks/doctors/lawyers, other than they're the ones that are hard to collect $ from.

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  3. Re:Flash and Silverlight by Eravnrekaree · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I think your wrong about that. Who the hell wants to do their taxes, finances, write letters, and so on on some rinky dink tablet? Not me. The reason desktop sales have slowed down is 1) for most people their current computer is fine so they are not buying a new one until the old one dies. 2) We've not seen much of an increase in performance, I cant see a big improvement in RAM size in the last 3 years for instance.

  4. List of Banks by ewhenn · · Score: 4, Informative

    Bank of America
    Associated Bank
    America’s Credit Unions
    Etrade Financial Corporation
    US bank
    Banco de Sabadell
    Farmers & Merchants Bank
    HSBC
    TD Bank
    For anyone wondering....

    BancorpSouth
    Chase
    Fifth third bank
    Wells Fargo
    StateFarm
    Regions
    ING Direct
    M&T Bank
    PNC
    UBS
    RBC Royal Bank
    RBS
    CityBank
    Bank BGZ
    Westpack
    Scotiabank
    United Services Automobile Association


    Source: http://blog.avast.com/2014/09/...