Royal baby fans were targeted by cyber criminals in a bid to steal bank details by duping them into clicking fake links to a ‘hospital cam’ through a malicious email campaign targeting ScribbleLive subscribers.
The devices of those who followed a ‘Watch the Hospital Cam” link were infected by the Zeus Trojan, which steals bank details.
A senior security analyst at web security firm Appriver, Troy Gill, said those responsible had “piggy-backed” on the Royal birth and estimated tens of millions of emails could have been sent out. He added there was a “strong possibility” that banking and personal information would be harvested from anyone who’d fallen victim to the online virus.