New viruses target several payment systems

Kaspersky Lab has published the second part of its report entitled "Computers, Networks and Theft", which focuses on attacks on organizations. According to Kaspersky Lab, in the first six months of 2006 a total of 602 organizations suffered from attacks designed to steal clients' money, up by 14 percent from the same period the previous year. Cyber criminals who attack companies are increasingly after personal details of clients: e-mail addresses, social security numbers, credentials used to access online games, and PIN codes. In Russia criminals break into databases of tax and customs authorities, road traffic police, passport services, and communication operators. There are also programs attacking clients of several payment systems at the same time, such as Trojan-Spy.Win32.Banker.asq, which targets users of PayPal, Сaixbank, Postbank and other systems.