For the price of 3,000 dollars, our reporter was offered his personal bank Trojan. In an interview with Computer Sweden, the hacker behind the recent Internet frauds against Sweden's Nordea bank claims responsibility for more intrusions. "99 percent of all bank intrusions are kept secret," he insists.
With the aid of security expert Per Hellqvist of Symantec, Sweden, Computer Sweden tracked the Russian-speaking hacker. Using a pseudonym, our reporter claimed to be interested in buying his own Trojan, tailored for attacking an internet bank. It was soon obvious that "Corpse" knows very well that his application is used for major Internet banking frauds.
The bank accounts broken into are selected at random: "It's like roulette," he says in broken English: "Some accounts have a million dollars, some have one dollar. You never know who gets infected."