The infection of the worldwide Internet by ZeuS virus has influenced all the virtual community. The trojan appeared to be able to trace and transfer any information it wanted from the infected computer, this including financial data, to the servers of hackers through remote access.

The virus plays a simple game: within one banking session it logs in to any banking service from the exposed computer, and then instantly sends the user's money to the hackers’ account. Worse still, its latest version is equipped with VNC (Virtual Network Computing), enabling it to totally exclude the user’s participation in the process. What it does for that is enabling the virus to self-authorize in many payment systems and use the browser, transferring victim’s money from any account. By the way, the most unreliable browsers are Internet Explorer and Firefox.

ZeuS is registered to break almost all currently existing kinds of computer protection. It can bypass even the advanced protecting systems like certificates, keys to access and extra authentication forms (which can be found under the “magic word” password field), letting alone the DiggiPass (Go3) protecting device. Читать далее »