Intercepts SMS messages from bank, defeating two-factor authentication.
A new version of the Zeus trojan—a longtime favorite of criminals conducting online financial fraud—has been used in attacks on over 30,000 electronic banking customers in Europe, ===> infecting both their personal computers and smartphones. <===
The sophisticated attack is designed to circumvent banks' use of two-factor authentication for transactions by intercepting messages sent by the bank to victims' mobile phones.
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