Hackers have managed accounts of an unknown number of people to plunder by a virus. Reports that a Belgian newspaper. The fraud was discovered in Belgium lwa, but various tweakers report that the fraud also occurs in the Netherlands.
The virus is about ten days ago became active, writes to the Walloon newspaper La Dernière Heure. It comes to the banks ING, Fortis, Dexia and KBC. It is unclear whether only Belgian customers of ING are affected, or also Dutch, but various tweakers reported to the editors that there is also in the Netherlands, cases of fraud are known.
The virus works with a popup on the screen, that will prompt the user for a transaction to commit. Then comes a TAN code via sms for a transfer. The popup is created in the ING style, and would look like the real thing. If that is confirmed, the money is depreciated. It comes to about 90 percent of the balance, making the damage per victim in the thousands of dollars. Dexia and ING are admitting that the fraud is committed.
It is unclear who the virus, how it is called and how people can remove. People are advised not to make transactions at unexpected times. The fraudebedrag would have so far been relatively small. Banks, the damage of customers to pay for it. The banks claim that it is due to a virus on the pc of users and that the systems are not cracked.
Update 11:13: Various tweakers report that the fraud also occurs in the Netherlands. The article is adjusted accordingly. A few weeks ago performed ING has a top ten reviews from that question about the safety of the system. ING stresses in a first reaction opposite Tweakers.net that the top ten reviews los of any viruses. A spokesperson confirms that it often happens that a virus is successful money will be depreciated, but that it is not known whether that is in the mentioned Dutch cases was the case.
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