This suspected cybercriminal may be buying coke with your online bank funds

On the coffee table was a message etched in powder, presumably cocaine: “I really miss you.”

The photo was on a social networking profile of a man in Ukraine that analysts with a Danish computer security company believe designed and rents an advanced malicious software program targeting the financial industry, called “Hesperbot.”

Hesperbot first emerged in Turkey around 2013. It’s an advanced package of tools that can be used by less-skilled cybercriminals to break into online bank accounts, even defeating two-factor authentication systems. It is now being used against banking customers in Germany, France, the U.K., Australia, the Czech Republic, Portugal.

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