Over the last few years a large criminal organization has been using a very powerful Trojan program.  At this time, it has been able to gather over half a million bank accounts and credit card numbers. The last report stated that it has been active since 2006.

This program runs by monitoring traffic and keying in on banking or financial urls to be entered by the infected computer.  Once it triggers, it gets the users information and then sends it back to a central server.  Further study revealed that it was not even detected by most antivirus programs.

Security experts believe, as usual, that this system is being run out of Russia. Mainly because Russia was the only country without any infections from this Trojan.  Remember to be careful when your going to important websites dealing with money.  Alway check the certificates of the site before you log in.  Never click a link to your financial institution from an email.  It is always better to use your own favorites for your important websites.