Cyber crime increasingly sophisticated. Cyber criminals in the UK using the latest trojan virus in a plot to steal bank account data from tens of thousands of computer users around the world.

Through in-depth investigations, cyber police unit at Scotland Yard in England managed to catch the perpetrators, namely a man and a young woman. Conspiracy they use a virus called Zeus or Zbot to infect your computer and download data, including bank accounts, passwords, credit cards and so on.

Files retrieved from the tens of thousands of victims throughout the world, then stored on the server that the cracker. But the police do not know if they’ve managed to steal money from bank accounts of victims, or whether the data is also sold to third parties.

The two British suspects were arrested in the city of Manchester. This detention is the first time in continental Europe is related to the war against the criminals who use Zeus virus.

“Zeus Trojan is very sophisticated and have been used around the world to infect or accessing personal information. The potential financial losses that occur could be very big,” said Charlie McMurdie, of Scotland Yard.

As usual, to avoid such attacks, the user is expected to continue to update anti-virus. In addition, it is recommended not to open a link or a suspicious email attachments.

Melbourne – The Australian atheists in panic hit by cyber attack. Website institutions Atheist Foundation of Australia (AFA) and the Global Atheist Convention collapse hit the cracker.

Attack type ‘distributed denial of service’ is crippling their website to offline and not accessible anymore.

Predictably, the attacks carried out on the event-related protests Global plan Atheist Convention will be held in Melbourne in March 2010. Religious groups suspected of being behind the attack although there is no clear evidence.

Some religious groups in Australia allegedly not pleased with the football exploits this atheist group. As a result of these cyber attacks, tickets for the event can not be sold online until the site restored.

“Can we inform that the site Atheist Foundation of Australia and the Global Atheist Convention is a specific target in this attack,” said David Nicholls, President of AFA in a statement that was launched SMH.

Nicholls rate, the attack not only against atheists, but also the freedom of speech. He also hopes the two sites be restored soon.

Previously, cyber attacks against the site had also understand Scientology adherents in Australia. One of the perpetrators who were arrested threatened punishment to 10 years in prison.