Enisa Warns Banks: Assume All Pcs Are Infected

snoopy · Jul 5, 2012

July 5th, 2012, 13:28 GMT · By Eduard Kovacs
ENISA Warns Banks: Assume All PCs Are Infected

After analyzing the “Operation High Roller” report recently published by McAfee and Guardian Analytics, the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) has determined that such attacks reveal the existence of major security gaps.

ENISA representatives highlight the fact that cybercriminal campaigns that target online banking sites are not really a novelty. However, Operation High Roller stands out of the crowd because the attacks are targeted, sophisticated and highly automated.

The cyberattacks described by McAfee start with the identification of victims with high balance accounts. Then, banking malware such as ZeuS, Ice IX or SpyEye is pushed on to the targeted computers. These malicious elements help the crooks make fraudulent transactions from the victims’ accounts to their own, and then to mules from abroad.

ENISA believes that such schemes could be prevented if financial institutions would simply assume that all the PCs that belonged to their customers were infected with a malicious element. By doing so, they could implement protection mechanisms that blocked such attacks.
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