Trusteer researchers cautioned a malware variant known as Shylock which is attacking global financial institutions, as per the reports by eSecurity Planet on September 7, 2011.
Contrast to the non-financial malware Ramnit which Trusteer reported in August 2011 had turned into a fraud platform; Shylock doesn't integrate methods from the notorious Zeus Trojan. It seems criminals have custom developed monetary fraud capabilities for Shylock.
Sadly, Shylock uses a better method of injecting code into browser processes. This method is generally used to insert rogue fields into authentic forms with the objective of stealing monetary data.
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