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The Trojan, dubbed Trojan.Silentbanker by security software company Symantec, can intercept online banking transactions that normally are well guarded by two-factor authentication procedures. During a banking transaction, Silentbanker will change the user’s bank account details over to the attacker’s account, all the while mimicking what the user would expect to see from a typical banking transaction. “The scale and sophistication of this emerging banking Trojan is worrying, even for someone who sees banking Trojans on a daily basis,” writes O’Murchu on Symantec’s security response blog. “This Trojan downloads a configuration file that contains the domain names of over 400 banks. The Silentbanker Trojan is not the first Trojan aimed at attacking bank accounts.

[via PCWorld]