Banking trojan Dyreza generating 'tens of thousands' of malicious emails a day
by Stuart Dredge from Technology | The Guardian on (#36S6)
Security firm warns that customers of NatWest, Barclays, HSBC and other British banks are being targeted by JavaScript malware
British customers of banks including NatWest, Barclays and HSBC are being targeted by a wave of malicious emails attempting to install the Dyreza malware on their computers.
Security firm Bitdefender claims that RBS, Lloyds Bank and Santander customers are also receiving the emails, which direct them to websites with "highly obfuscated" JavaScript code, which installs the Trojan.
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