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« Yahoo! buys Stats e-mail | Main | Ebay: from strength to strength » October 22, 2004PC Hijack for PhishingAccording to Ciphertrust, and as reported by the BBC reports, desktop PCs are being hijacked to allow phishing attacks to originate from Zombie PC's. It's hardly a surprising move - use of trojans and spyware and other security exploits have real money behind them and are no longer the school yard for script kiddies. T When phishing can lead to complete access to user banking details, it opens the door to wide-spread fraud, so the setting up of zombie networks - networks of PCs infected for use in such attacks - a viable commercial project. As reported at the BBC: Cyber conmen 'hijack desktop PCs' "Phishing attacks represent a collaboration of the world's most skilled hackers and organised crime," said Paul Judge, chief technology officer at Ciphertrust. Posted by at October 22, 2004 01:28 PM > Discuss this in the Platinax Internet business forums |
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