![]() “This attack toolkit ushers in a new era of bank heists.” “This has tremendous implications,” especially as Americans move toward banking by phone, said Kellerman. The new code has the potential to dramatically escalate the amount being stolen from accounts and a years-old arms race between the banks and criminal groups that are often based in Eastern Europe. That is troubling because European banks generally have greater technology defenses than those in the United States, and Kellerman said it is “inevitable” that the variants will cross the Atlantic. Trend Micro Vice President Tom Kellerman told Reuters that his company’s researchers had seen the new attacks on a dozen financial institutions in Germany, the United Kingdom and Italy. The latest variants of the widespread SpyEye and Zeus programs have already stolen as much as 13,000 Euros at a time from a single account and are in the early stages of deployment, according to investigators at Trend Micro Inc 4704.T, a Japan-based security company that has many banks as customers. ![]() Backlit keyboard is reflected in screen of Apple Macbook Pro notebook computer in Warsaw February 6, 2012. ![]()
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