BANKING WARNING: Computers of financial institutes around the world attacked by hackers

Saturday, February 11, 2017
By Paul Martin

HACKERS have infected 140 banks in 40 countries across the world with invisible malware giving them the ability to remotely control ATMs.

By LAURA MOWAT
Express.co.uk
Sat, Feb 11, 2017

Researchers at Kaspersky Lab, a computer security company, have revealed that they have re-detected malware that has infected networks belonging to 140 banks as well as other companies.

Kaspersky has said that this malware is able to remain invisible and the attackers have covered their tracks by wiping their activity from the machine’s memory before it is rebooted.

It hides itself in the computer’s memory to avoid detection and researchers say they do not know who is behind it.

Once the hackers have this information, the researches claim that the attackers had access to the machines.

Kaspersky said: “The use of open source exploit code, common Windows utilities and unknown domains makes it almost impossible to determine the group responsible – or even whether it is a single group or several groups sharing the same tools.”

The company found out that the code had been combined with a number of scripts that had been transformed into malicious codes to collect the passwords of system administrators in an invisible way.

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