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Pop-up Program Reads Keystrokes, Steals Passwords

Posted by TimSlavin at June 30, 2004

"Security researchers have discovered a malicious program that installs itself through a pop-up ad and can read keystrokes and steal passwords when victims visit any of nearly 50 targeted banking sites.

The targeted sites include major financial institutions, such as Citibank, Barclays Bank and Deutsche Bank, researcher Marcus Sachs said Tuesday."

Good article from CNET. Another reason to get a web browser with pop-up blockers or add-on software that does the same.

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