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Cybercriminals have developed sophisticated malware to launch "major and substantive" attacks on large U.K. financial institutions' back-end infrastructure, a national cyberthreat assessment said Tuesday. The Dridex financial trojan, which was used to steal Â?20 million from the U.K. banking sector from late 2014 to October 2015, has been updated to better target banks' payment systems, according to the report by the National Crime Agency, the National Cyber Security Centre and industry partners. Members of the tight-knit group of less than a dozen criminals involved in developing Dridex are likely behind the new version and may attempt to steal tens of...