Internet threat: Hackers swarm bank accounts

By Byron Acohido
USA TODAY
posted February 23, 2009

New and nasty banking trojans are on the rise on the Internet and attacking online bank accounts.

The new trojan programs — which wait on your hard drive for an opportunity to crack your online banking account — are different from traditional "phishing" e-mail scams that try to trick you into typing your login information at fake bank websites. the rest