Online Banking Pages But!

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They are NOT! At least, legitimately that is. Cunning cyber-criminals are designing malicious bugs that, once sneaked into a PC via the internet, masquerade as online banking pages. Experts say the pages are almost indistinguishable from the genuine site - nothing at all suggests they're fake. At a simple level, criminals can then trick their victims into inputting passwords, codes, dates of birth, and other sensitive information that can be used for identity theft crimes on or offline. On a more complex scale, a user will log onto the bank and the virus changes the pages that are coming from your bank. The next thing you see is a message from the bank to do something. There's no way of knowing whether this is part of the normal website or has been injected into the session as these pages look exactly like the bank's website. Not only that the hackers were able to cover the tracks by making the URL appear as the same as the bank's and that it's still listed as a secure session. In terms of appearance, they're very highly believable. Currently, it is believed that the attack is targeting UK bank account holders from the likes of Lloyds, Barclays, and NatWest but I think we would be foolish to leave it as there. The only way to avoid this catastrophic attack would be protecting yourself by installing your computers with the latest antivirus software. Be careful than be sorry here. Read more: http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/saving/article-2047543/Warning-dangerous-new-viruses-look-identical-online-banking-pages.html