Hackers targeting users of Barclays, Royal Bank of Scotland, HSBC, Lloyds Bank and Santander

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Hackers targeting users of Barclays, Royal Bank of Scotland, HSBC, Lloyds Bank and Santander

19,000 malicious emails have been sent in three days from spam servers worldwide, inviting users to download an archive containing a malicious .exe file.

Bitdefender warns that the file acts as a downloader that fetches and executes the Dyreza banker Trojan, also known as Dyre. This represents a sizeable risk for customers of reputable financial and banking institutions from the UK, France, Germany, the US, Australia and Romania, many of whom have been targeted.