14 DAY TRIAL // According to Panda Security, a company specialized in providing security software solutions, a new spam campaign has been launched with the purpose of infecting users' machines with a banking Trojan which identified by the previously mentioned firm as Trj/Banker.LGC. People in the English speaking part of the world will probably not be targeted, since the message is written in Spanish.
"We have just discovered another spam message used to fool users into installing a new banking Trojan. This time it passes itself off as if it were a real piece of news from El Pais, one of the major newspapers in Spain. It is about a car accident that would have taken place today in Bilbao and where Fernando Alonso, the two-time Formula 1 world champion has been supposedly seriously injured," said Luis Corrons from PandaLabs.
Banking Trojans are propagated by people with malicious intentions that want to get their greedy hands on your bank account security credentials and then bleed it dry. According to Panda Security, out of all security threats one can encounter by surfing the web, banking Trojans are by far the most dangerous. "There's no real solution to the problem in place and certainly no banking customer is safe from this threat today."
Luis Corrons, the Panda Security researcher that reported the new Trojan, has been with the company for over nine years now. He started to work for Panda Security back in 1999 and, as a member of the technical support department, his job was to provide much needed help to corporate and home users. As of 2002, the position he occupies within the organization is of Director and Malware Alerts Coordinator.
Users that receive a message informing them of a Fernando Alonso accident are well advised to delete it immediately. If you can't contain yourself and open the message, whatever you do, do not click on the link included in the so-called message as your PC will most likely be infected.