Trojan phishing suspect hauled in

[whatthe]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/04...uspect_cuffed/

An Estonian man suspected of plundering millions from hundreds of online bank accounts accounts across Europe was arrested last week. AP reports that the unnamed 24 year-old allegedly used a sophisticated Trojan in order to monitor the keystrokes on victims' PCs and extract confidential banking passwords that allowed him to plunder online accounts.

A good trend as of late that there seem to be more arrests in phishing scams. Hopefully convictions and stiff penalties are to follow.

[kakashi]

well the people who wrote that article obviously didnt know that its called a keystroke logger admins sometimes use it to see what users are doing on the com you can diguise it as a game and have them run the program and it automaticly in stalls the logger

[spheraice]

This is just the tip of the iceberg for IP/Ident. thefts..

[SirDice]

Originally posted here by kakashi
well the people who wrote that article obviously didnt know that its called a keystroke logger admins sometimes use it to see what users are doing on the com you can diguise it as a game and have them run the program and it automaticly in stalls the logger

Errrmmm?!?!? Ethics?!?!? I see no real reason why an admin would install a keylogger to "monitor" his/her users. It is a blatant disregard of that user's privacy.
Disguising a keylogger as a game is called a trojan horse....

[whatthe]

eBay fraudster lands six-year prison term

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-5...=zdfd.newsfeed