My friends Chase accounts were wiped clean. If youre part of these banks, I would scan your system. Its real people dont ignore this post if you bank with any of these institutions. NBC HACKED to spread bank account-raiding Trojan No user info compromised insists US telly network Twitter 130 Facebook 19 G+ Reg comments 10 22 Feb 2013 at 11:17, John Leyden The website of US TV network NBC was hacked to deliver Java and PDF exploits. The attack against NBC - which hosts entertainment and TV content - used a cybercrime toolkit called Redkit that was ultimately aimed at delivering Citadel, a banking Trojan. NBC acted promptly to cleaned up its promotional site, admitting the problem on NBCNews, part of its NBC News Digital group, which it said was not affected by the hack. Its unclear how many people were affected. An analysis of the attack by security consultancy Fox-IT can be found here. A blog post by anti-virus firm Eset can be found here. We’ve identified the problem and are working to resolve it. No user information has been compromised, NBC said in a statement. NBC News Digital credited security researcher Ronald Prins of Fox-IT in the Netherlands with tweeting the first warning about the problem. Prins tweeted a warning against visiting NBC yesterday morning, saying it was spreading malware. ® The flow of the attack looks like this: An iframe (on nbc) loads a webpage that tries to download and execute a malicious JAR file as well as a malicious PDF. hxxp://finesseindia/332.jar & hxxp://finesseindia/987.pdf Many more different URLs have been used in the coming hours after the first sign of the attack was detected. The Citadel malware distributed is configured to manipulate traffic to and from the banking sites of the following banks amongst others: Wells Fargo USAA Citibank Bank of America TD Ameritrade Suntrust Navy Federal Credit Union Citizensbank Online Fifth Third Bank PNC Chase Schwab American Express
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