A town supervisor in Poughkeepsie, New York has criticized TD Bank after online criminals transferred $379,000 from the city’s bank account to the Ukraine.
It seems that malware infected the computer that the comptroller of the town uses to access the bank’s corporate banking system. Cyber criminals were then able to steal the bank account login and password, and access the bank’s online banking system. They initiated numerous small funds transfers on January 11 and 12, 2010, taking a total of $378,000.
This is yet another of the increasingly visible attacks against users of corporate online banking systems with sophisticated malware, such as the Zeus, silentbanker, zbot or clampi trojans.
