full-disclosure - Defeating Citi-Bank Virtual Keyboard Protection

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Message-ID: <OF6B777912.9630D2A5-ON88257054.006F210D-88257054.006F3522@symantec.com>
Date: Fri Aug  5 21:15:44 2005
From: pferrie at symantec.com (Peter Ferrie)
Subject: Defeating Citi-Bank Virtual Keyboard Protection





>> Recently I discovered a method to defeat the much hyped Citi-Bank
>> Virtual Keyboard Protection which the bank claimed that it defends the
>> customers against malicious programs like keyloggers, Trojans and
>> spywares etc.
>
>Wouldn't that be trivial to snoop on simply by making a trojan / spyware
>application that records a section of screen in the immediate proximity of
>mouse cursor on every mouse click? It's not that resource consuming, and
>easy to arrange.

Something similar was done by variants of the W32/Dumaru family last year.
That was an attack against the e-Gold keypad.
You can read about it here: http://pferrie.tripod.com/vb/dumaru.pdf