An e-mail scam, which has been spreading fast, distributes phishing messages pretending to be from FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation), the Federal Reserve Bank, or NACHA (National Automated Clearing House Association), which potentially contaminate recipients' PCs by dropping malware, as also enable the phishers to gain admission into the victims' bank accounts, reported FBI dated January 23, 2012.
Ideally dubbed as "Gameover," the malware, after infecting an end-user' PC, captures his username and password, while permeates standard user-authentication methods that banks and other financial institutions employ. Security Expert Jackson, since many years, has been monitoring ZeuS along with the malware's creator. Accordingly he states that Gameover is one fresh and increasingly perilous online hazard as its creator, the ZeuS developer made it when his most influential customers asked to do so. ESecurity Planet published this on January 23, 2012.
Thus, issuing an alert, the FBI said that Gameover was getting increasingly active in spewing spam, which potentially deceived recipients into installing malware onto their PCs and which, similar as ZeuS, plundered companies' and consumers' financial accounts.
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