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SpyEye


SpyEye is a malware program that attacks users running Google Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer and Opera web browsers on the Microsoft Windows operating system. This malware uses keystroke logging and form grabbing to steal user credentials for malicious use. SpyEye allows hackers to steal money from online bank accounts and initiate transactions even while valid users are logged into their bank account.

SpyEye is a serious threat to banks and account holders on the basis that SpyEye adjusts the on-line banking account totals such that it visually appears no transactions have been made and no money has been withdrawn.

SpyEye has the ability to insert new fields into a website prompting for user names, passwords, or card numbers allowing hackers to steal money without account holders ever taking notice.

SpyEye emanated from Russia in 2009 and was sold in underground forums for $500+ in which SpyEye advertised features such as keyloggers, auto-fill credit card modules, email backups, config files (encrypted), Zeus killer, http access, Pop3 grabbers and FTP grabbers.

Target users and institutions in the United States, United Kingdom, Mexico, Canada and India were the largest victims of SpyEye; the United States made up 97% of the institutions that fell victim of this malware.


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