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Cybercrooks come up with new ideas
CYBER-CRIMINALS are apparently coming up with more crafty and sophisticated ways to hack data now that owners are installing firewalls and virus checkers.
According to USA Today, the latest technique is to attack home network routers instead of PC hard-drives. Another uses hacked PCs to click on Internet adverts to generate ad payments.
Mary Landesman, senior researcher at security firm ScanSafe said that attacks were becoming more frequent and continue to grow increasingly more sophisticated in 2008.
The router hack seems to be the brain child of one particular gang which has successfully used it to get money out of a Mexican bank.
This involves sending out tainted e-mail greeting card that, when opened, give the intruders control of the recipient's router.
It only worked on one router model, but fortunately for the crooks it just happened to be one run by the bank.
A Symantec spokesman said that the attack was so successful it was almost certain to be copied by others who would use other router brands.
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Just yesterday I was reviewing my homemade spam filter. I do that sometimes to find out what new trends are showing.
There was one that got caught with a weird subject : out of 6 words, five were misspelled.
The spammers seem to have read the memo that says that, as long as the first and last letter are the same, the letters in the middle of a word will actually be more or less correctly interpreted by the brain.
To me, I cannot for the life of me imagine why anyone would want to open a mail entitled "mkae yuor wfie more hpapy" and hope to find legitimate information inside.
If anyone writes me a mail with that kind of spelling, I'm sorry but I won't even try to decipher the subject - it's direct to vertical storage.
Thankfully the delivery method appears to rely on the good old "get some idiot to open a suspicious email". By now I hope most people have gotten a little wiser in such cases, though I guess for every person that learns, another person takes their place.