In addition to the PDF issue, which may make it difficult for some customers to lack PDF viewers, what techniques could we use to protect or detect that the generated ticket has been modified by malware?
Virus that affects tickets already infects 192 thousand computers
A report released by the RSA electronic security company shows that at least 192,000 computers have been infected by a virus that changes the number of bank tickets. In addition, according to analysis, most affected machines are in Brazil.
According to RSA, the virus is triggered by email and changes the numbering of bank tickets at the time of online payment, diverting the values to the account of a gang. Most of the victims of the Southeast region and it has already been identified that 75% of them use Windows 7 as an operating system. Hotmail users are majority among those affected by the problem.
According to Info magazine, 496 thousand tickets were generated many of them with values of up to R $ 1.5 thousand. The total value estimated fraudulent documents can reach $ 8.5 billion. THE RSA warns of delay in payment processing and slowness in navigation may indicate that your machine is compromised.