Market watcher Gartner Inc., reports that phishing grew by almost 40 percent between September 2007 and September 2008. According to the research firm the basic targets refer to financial institutions and other intermediary parties as well as consumers. Figure 1. The number of malware and phishing incidents (2006-2008) The aim of phishing is to get [...]
This article is a continuation of the previous article on hosts files modification. Coming back to this topic one of the many computer dangers that scare most users today relates to modifying hosts files used for Phishing Scams. This technique is often applied by bad guys for malicious purposes. By modifying hosts files they create [...]
It seems that creators of rogue security products earn huge sums of money. There are various methods rogue software programs rely on to trick infected users and persuade them to buy their programs. To illustrate this case, let’s take a look at a new rogue anti-spyware program, Anti-virus-1. After the installation of Anti-virus-1, the following [...]
Nowadays, the majority of visible and serious difficulties which face the Internet rely upon a huge environment of malicious software and tools. Trojan.Win32.Bancos is one of the current threats that points to a banking Trojan. Being an info stealer waiting for the user to access banking websites, Bancos will spoof pages of the bank website [...]