A new Internet attack discovered late Thursday was designed by an infamous group of Russian virus writers to steal credit card and other financial information from Web surfers and send it to Web sites where it can be retrieved by hackers, security experts warned Friday. Mikko Hyppönen, director of antivirus research at Helsinki antivirus company F-Secure Corp., said his team had stayed up all night examining details of the new threat and have connected it with a known Russian virus writing group called Korgo.
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