Yet another catastrophic virus has surfaced, this one involving your banking and personal information. This particular virus is very clever in the sense that once a user receives it, the bug sits dormant on a computer until some point in which the user goes to do online banking. Once logged into the banking site, a verification screen appears that asks to authenticate information. Information such as driver license number, social security number, date of birth, debit card, pin number, mother’s maiden name, etc. Once the information is entered the user clicks continue the verification screen closes and you are in your account, as if nothing happened. After the information is sent the hackers have all your information possible to do catastrophic damage like wire transfers or identity theft.
While this may sound like a red alert that would quickly make you question the authenticity, it is a screen that loads into your online login, for instance Chase Online Banking, that looks just like every other screen in Chase. In fact, if you click on anything within such as messaging center, pay bills, you are actually in your online banking account. It has all of your login name listed, your last login time, etc. Nothing on this screen looks un-authentic and all of the information is contained within the standard online banking info.
T-Tech Solutions LLC warns you that if you do online banking and you’re asked to authenticate information immediately sign off and check your computer for viruses. If you have any further questions or need help with cleaning up this type of malware don’t hesitate to call T-Tech Solutions LLC! The bigger concern with this issue is that cleaning the machine only rids your system of the infection. If you already entered any of the information, it has already been supplied to the dangerous parties. Information such as your debit card info, maiden name, social security, pin number, etc.
