FBI Charges Dozens in Global Computer Virus Scam

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[nuconvert]

Authorities have charged more than 60 people worldwide in connection with a global cybercrime scheme that relied on Internet viruses to steal millions of dollars from U.S. bank accounts, the FBI said.

[jonascord]

They spend 18 months in Club Fed, and go to Rio and spend the rest of their lives drinking Cristal. I’d hit that. It’s not like the US feds are honest. They just want their piece of the Action. Ask Holder about the NBP.

[doc11355]

...thousands of personal computers in England were infected with the malicious Zeus Trojan. Using it, criminal gangs gained the personal logins to thousands of bank accounts, enabling them to transfer money to accounts under criminal control.

Any guesses about which computer operating system proved to be so vulnerable it permitted penetration and access to personal financial data?

[FreedomOfExpression]

Any, when social engineering is involved.

[ridesthemiles]

They all are vulnerable, IMO.

I still pay my bills with checks. Won’t do anything financial on the computer.

[Vaduz]

The DNC got busted?.

[Buddygirl]

Same here. I don’t want to pay bills online because of the vunerability of the computer. It is as simple as that. Yet, I have a friend who looks down on me because I refuse to use computer to pay bills.

[thulldud]

Any guesses about which computer operating system proved to be so vulnerable it permitted penetration and access to personal financial data?

Nobody wants to say the obvious, obviously.

(It was CP/M, right?)

[a fool in paradise]

There go Lyndon LaRouche’s fundraising plans for 2012.

[a fool in paradise]

Doesn’t matter whether you engage in online transactions when your bank or credit card company’s data is compromised internally.

[Traveler59]

(It was CP/M, right?)

You're showing your age with that comment. ;)

[HiTech RedNeck]

Any guesses about which computer operating system proved to be so vulnerable it permitted penetration and access to personal financial data?

Duh, wuz it Linux? Dat wascally Ubuntu!

[HiTech RedNeck]

Enough banks or credit card companies get bitten this way (after all they can’t get any blood out of a turnip consumer) and they will field web sites that refuse to work under Windows.