Smoke Loader Attacking Financial Institutions Running Microsoft Windows

The reason hackers go after financial institutions is because these places have valuable things like money, intellectual property, and sensitive customer information.  Hacked financial systems can result in monetary gain by means of theft, blackmail or disservice interruption. Cybersecurity researchers at Palo Alto Networks recently discovered that Smoke Loader malware has been attacking financial institutions […]

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