How Your Bank Accounts Can Be Stolen With Zeus Virus?
Zeus is a Trojan horse that steals banking information by Man-in-the-browser keystroke logging and Form Grabbing. Zeus is spread mainly through drive-by downloads and phishing schemes. First identified in July 2007 when it was used to steal information from the United States Department of Transportation, it became more widespread in March 2009. In June 2009, security company Prevx discovered that Zeus had compromised over 74,000 FTP accounts on websites of such companies as the Bank of America, NASA, Monster.com, ABC, Oracle, Play.com, Cisco, Amazon, and BusinesWeekAccording to many sources, perhaps it has been confirmed that those pages are being hosted by the Russian Mafia (known as the Russian Business Network as well).
Does Facebook Took Action Against It?
The founder of advocacy group Fans Against Kounterfeit Enterprise (FAKE) said that he was trying to alert Facebook about this issue to take action against it as soon as possible, but unluckily he was not well satisfied with their response.
Those who are using windows should stay much care about this issue. It has been said that Windows devices are much infected with this virus. Hence, Mac OS X or Linux is still safe from this virus.
Some countries like the USA and UK are badly infected, though, India, Russia, Canada and France are also infected with the virus at some moderate limits. Some other countries like Australia, Argentina, Brazil, South Africa, Chile, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Indonesia and some other South-East Asian and European countries are less affected by this virus.
The founder of advocacy group Fans Against Kounterfeit Enterprise (FAKE) said that he was trying to alert Facebook about this issue to take action against it as soon as possible, but unluckily he was not well satisfied with their response.
Those who are using windows should stay much care about this issue. It has been said that Windows devices are much infected with this virus. Hence, Mac OS X or Linux is still safe from this virus.
Some countries like the USA and UK are badly infected, though, India, Russia, Canada and France are also infected with the virus at some moderate limits. Some other countries like Australia, Argentina, Brazil, South Africa, Chile, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Indonesia and some other South-East Asian and European countries are less affected by this virus.
Those who are using windows should stay much care about this issue. It has been said that Windows devices are much infected with this virus. Hence, Mac OS X or Linux is still safe from this virus.
Some countries like the USA and UK are badly infected, though, India, Russia, Canada and France are also infected with the virus at some moderate limits. Some other countries like Australia, Argentina, Brazil, South Africa, Chile, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Indonesia and some other South-East Asian and European countries are less affected by this virus.
Some countries like the USA and UK are badly infected, though, India, Russia, Canada and France are also infected with the virus at some moderate limits. Some other countries like Australia, Argentina, Brazil, South Africa, Chile, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Indonesia and some other South-East Asian and European countries are less affected by this virus.
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Zeus Virus can propagate through phishing messages that are generated from the account that was already compromised by phishing. That phished account will then start sending messages to your friends containing links to the ads and would ask them to simply checkout the video or product by clicking on such links. This way the virus will go viral.
Readers are requested to stay refrain from clicking such links, because they might end up getting their accounts compromised The virus is very sophisticated, so that it could replace the website of a bank with the mimicked page of its own.
Facebook is aware of it, but it is unlikely that Facebook is going to take any action against it.
Regards: By Anshuman Kak
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