- Jun 24, 2011
- 387
"In a world where even money has gone digital, it’s no surprise that criminals have gone there too. Online alley muggings that turn netizens’ computers into spam- or click bots happen every single day.
Digital conmen who craft intricate phishing sites designed to steal credentials lurk around every corner. Malware like Zeus or Zberp or Dyre can now automate credential theft with man in the middle attacks – no fake banking page required. And even the big names, names like eBay and Microsoft, are not invulnerable to breaches or bugs that enable identity theft and zero day attacks.
All of these are the street crimes of our virtual world, which happen on a daily basis, whether we personally experience them or not. Just like in the real world, though, there’s more to cybercrime than petty theft and thugs. In fact, there’s actually quite more to it than that.
Call it intelligent, call it high level, call it “organized (cyber)crime,” if you will – but whichever name you give it, digital money theft has reached new levels of effectiveness in 2014. As commerce has now become almost ubiquitously virtual, large scale attacks from organized cyber gangs that used to only affect governments and corporations are now entering the consumer realm. And in all cases the connection is cash."
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Digital conmen who craft intricate phishing sites designed to steal credentials lurk around every corner. Malware like Zeus or Zberp or Dyre can now automate credential theft with man in the middle attacks – no fake banking page required. And even the big names, names like eBay and Microsoft, are not invulnerable to breaches or bugs that enable identity theft and zero day attacks.
All of these are the street crimes of our virtual world, which happen on a daily basis, whether we personally experience them or not. Just like in the real world, though, there’s more to cybercrime than petty theft and thugs. In fact, there’s actually quite more to it than that.
Call it intelligent, call it high level, call it “organized (cyber)crime,” if you will – but whichever name you give it, digital money theft has reached new levels of effectiveness in 2014. As commerce has now become almost ubiquitously virtual, large scale attacks from organized cyber gangs that used to only affect governments and corporations are now entering the consumer realm. And in all cases the connection is cash."
Continue here:
http://blog.emsisoft.com/2014/10/01...icker141001&utm_campaign=newsbox_ticker141001
