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It doesn't. Today's banking malware will capture the form values on submit, either as text or as a screenshot. And it will do so, silently, every time you log in.

All this scheme does is limit an attacker to gathering three letters per login attempt. Given an eight-letter password, three logins will probably disclose most of it; or at least enough for an attacker to pass the challenge when he tries to log in.

In addition, if the attacker is actually interested in your data, he can easily inject a fake "wrong password" message after your first attempt and have you try again, gathering 6 characters per login.




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