Hackers bank on Trojans to steal financial data
Trojans designed to steal financial information constitute one of the fastest growing threats to internet users, security experts warned today.
PandaLabs highlighted the serious danger posed by a recently detected example, the StealAll.A Trojan, which injects a DLL in the internet browser to steal data that users enter in online forms.
According to the security company, 53.6 percent of the new malware samples that appeared in 2006 were Trojans. And 20 percent of all Trojans detected in 2006 were banker Trojans, which were the most frequently detected category of Trojan.
