ANZ warns of new Trojan virus

ANZ is warning its customers about a Trojan virus that creates a fake "personal details form" that appears to customers after they log on to the genuine ANZ website internet banking interface.

The pop-up form is convincingly branded and features a seemingly genuine form with scroll down menus. Previous trojan attacks typically try to redirect the user's browser to a fake bank site, but this one operates when the user is in a session with the genuine bank website and the genuine online banking interface.

Sam Plowman, head of online banking, ANZ, says the threat is contained on user's computers and does not mean that the ANZ website or internet banking interface has been compromised in any way. "This is wider than just ANZ, but unlike some of the other [banks], we have decided last night, upon noticing the trojan, to put the alert on the website to maximise the amount of information we share with our customers to protect them as best as possible."

Jeff McGeorge, Director of Brisbane-based security vendor Markets-Alert says this attack is a step forward by the hackers. "This is very clever, this is a new angle."