The Zeus Trojan, called the “most dangerous virus ever created” has stolen £675,000 from a British financial institution, and it isn’t done yet.

It is like the plot of a Hollywood movie, only the bad guys are definitely winning so far. Earlier this week, the internet security group M86 uncovered a Trojan virus targeting an unnamed financial institution in the UK. The “Zeus Trojan” has already siphoned off over $1 million from over 3,000 British customers between July 5 and August 4, and it shows no signs of stopping.

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This type of Trojan has been around for a while now, just not to this scale I don't think..

Still, it makes you wonder, huh? Quote from: RubiK on August 19, 2010, 03:19:35 AM

This type of Trojan has been around for a while now, just not to this scale I don't think..

Still, it makes you wonder, huh?

Yeah...ZBot is a really old trojan...I can't believe they haven't shut it down yet.

Will they ever shut it down?

I mean, surely it's just a case of fixing the flaw that the Trojan's taking advantage of?

I mean, surely it's just a case of fixing the flaw that the Trojan's taking advantage of?

However, as the article says, this could have been prevented by computer users keeping their systems updated.

Quote from article: “In the vast majority of cases, if people had kept their computer’s operating systems and software such as Internet Explorer up to date they would not have been attacked,” Ed Rowley, product manager at M86 said, according to the Daily Mail.

“More often than not Trojans exploit known vulnerabilities that can be simply patched and fixed by downloading updates.”

I don't think human nature can be fixed that easily