Attacks banks and paypal.
Hmmm, Due, did you go with Webroot's password management option?
NEW CYBER SPYING VIRUS FOUND IN MIDDLE EAST
A new cyber surveillance virus, similar to Stuxnet and Flame, has been found on computers in the Middle East, a leading security firm said Thursday. Researchers at Kaspersky Lab in Moscow say that the virus can spy on banking transactions and steal login information for social networking sites, email, and instant messaging. Dubbed Gauss, after a name found in its code, the virus has reportedly infected more than 2,500 personal computers, the bulk of them in Lebanon, and appears to have been written by the same programmers who wrote the Flame virus, which was found on computers in Iran in May, and possibly the Stuxnet virus. Targets included Lebanon’s BlomBank, ByblosBank, and Credit Libanais, as well as Citibank and eBay’s PayPal online payment system. “Gauss is a complex, nation-state sponsored cyber-espionage toolkit designed to steal sensitive data, with a specific focus on browser passwords, online banking account credentials, cookies and specific configurations of infected machines,” the lab said in a statement. (Guardian, FT, NYT, Reuters, Wired)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/aug/09/stuxnet-gauss-virus-kaspersky
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