Cyber-thieves Use Videos of Victims on their Computers to Steal from Online Accounts

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A security firm has revealed that cyber-thieves have used the technique of ‘grabbing’ videos of how their victims use their computer then using it to hack their online bank accounts. Dell Secureworks shows how the top eight crime networks use this technique to infiltrate online bank accounts.

Five of the eight bank botnets repeatedly, rapidly and sequentially steal images of their victims using their computers to build a movie detailing their online activity and habits.

They also tamper with data passing between users and banks, thereby stealing login data and hiding their thefts from the users.

Dr. Brett Stone-Gross, senior researcher at Dell and writer of the report describes how the theft is achieved. Speaking of the botnets, he said "They can measure where the mouse is and how long it takes to enter data that goes into the banks' automated transfer system.” Stone-Gross said that cheap storage and higher bandwidth net links facilitated the ease with which botnets could extract the image streams.

He noted that the first of these networks were reported in 2006-2007, and that while there have been attempts to shut them down, they survived through it.

This, he said, was a testament to how much money they are stealing and how ‘lucrative’ they are.
 
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