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Blogger: Hannah Doughty |
The malware attacking Plenty of Fish site, known as Tinba, is a spying malware that could have been downloaded quietly onto the users computer. The malware is said to have been hidden in adverts and unusually can be smuggled onto a users computer even though the user has not actually clicked on the advert.
Tinba can track every keystroke when a user is trying access a bank account. When a bank account is accessed or credit details are being entered on a website Tinba starts to record and collect every keystroke.
Experts at Malwarebytes, a security website which sells anti-virus software, found evidence of the hackers targeting Plenty of Fish’s estimated 12million members in the UK.
Jerome Segura, senior security researcher at Malwarebytes, said: ‘This type of attack does not require any user interaction. It does not matter if you haven’t browsed a dodgy site.'
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