Here’s a scary Trojan Virus that steals your money and displays a fake bank balance

Dubbed URLZone, this Trojan horse targets your Bank Account, steals your log-in credentials, grabs your money and displays a fake balance when you are in the account. Reported by a chief tech officer at Finjan and is programmed to calculate on the fly how much money to steal from an account based on how much is available. It exploits a hole in Firefox, IE 6, 7 and 8, and Opera. It is only found on Windows based systems and can be delivered to your machine either through JavaScript or from and Adobe PDF file.

This Trojan is primarily targeting German Banks currently and was linked back to a server in the Ukraine. Yuval Ben-Itzhak, chief technology officer at Finjan went on to state: “This is part of a new trend of more sophisticated Trojans designed to evade antifraud systems."

About 90,000 computers visited the sites housing the malware and 6,400 of them were infected, a 7.5 percent success rate, he said. Of those whose computers installed the Trojan, a few hundred had money stolen from their bank accounts, he said.

During the span of 22 days in mid-August, the criminals behind the Trojan stole the euro equivalent of nearly $438,000. (reported on CNET)