U.S. Bank Accounts Siphoned to China by Cyber Criminals

PC Virus Doctors' Dallas Computer Repair is hardly shocked to learn that millions of American dollars has been siphoned off to Chinese cyber criminals, according to an article on BankInfoSecurity.com. There were 20 incidents that were involved in Chinese wire fraud between March '10 and April '11 ranging from under $100,000 to just under a million dollars.

The FBI has issued advisory warning to the latest attacks which deploy phishing attacks. Zeus, Spybot and backdor.bot are deployed through emails or visiting an infected website where the malware is downloaded and installed. After the malware installation, other malware may be downloaded and the machine is now readied for remote control.

The malware now can log keystrokes, gather bank information and steal tokin id's in order to successfully act as if the wire transfers are actually intitiated by the victim and sent to the perpetrators in China who are situated in port cities close to Russia.

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