Financial malware gets smarter? But we've said that many times!
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This is yet another case of predictions coming true; Now it's Kaspersky time to say that malware is changing the way they attack online banking users to defeat two-factor authentication. Tjey even try to create a new security buzzword for that:"For example, two-factor authentication for online banking, which uses a hardware token in addition to a secret password, is increasingly ineffective. This is because malware writers have perfected the tools to get around it by redirecting the user to a separate server to harvest the necessary access information in real time – the so called ‘man in the middle’ attack.This defeats the two-factor process, but malware writers have taken the process a step further with a new ‘
Financial malware gets smarter? But we've said that many times!
Financial malware gets smarter? But we've…
Financial malware gets smarter? But we've said that many times!
This is yet another case of predictions coming true; Now it's Kaspersky time to say that malware is changing the way they attack online banking users to defeat two-factor authentication. Tjey even try to create a new security buzzword for that:"For example, two-factor authentication for online banking, which uses a hardware token in addition to a secret password, is increasingly ineffective. This is because malware writers have perfected the tools to get around it by redirecting the user to a separate server to harvest the necessary access information in real time – the so called ‘man in the middle’ attack.This defeats the two-factor process, but malware writers have taken the process a step further with a new ‘