According to a blog post by security blogger Brian Krebs, the most recent SpyEye Trojan, namely 1.3.34, is set to include new “form grabbing” capabilities that are expected to collect data that victims enter online, such as credit card or account information used for online banking, as well as the URLS of the websites visited, before these can be encrypted.
In recent and related news, in the US, 85 percent of the consumers have reported being worried and dissatisfied with the level of protection that online businesses offer to stop fraudsters, which is up 5 percent from 2009, according to a joint research conducted by the US device identification services company ThreatMetrix and the research organization Ponemon Institute.
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