In an posted earlier this month, RSA said it had information suggesting that a criminal gang planned to unleash a Trojan program called Gozi Prinimalka that would infiltrate computers belonging to U.S. banking customers and to initiate fraudulent wire transfers from their accounts.

According to RSA, the organizers of the attack are currently recruiting about 100 botmasters to launch and coordinate the attacks.

Since RSA's alert, several other security experts have reported seeing the signs of preparation of an imminent and massive attack against U.S banking customers.

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