Phishing goes ecommercial

A SENIOR RESEARCHER from SecureWorks at the BlackHat security conference told InformationWeek that attacks against its bank customers jumped 81 per cent in the past year and cyber-assaults on its credit union clients grew 62 per cent.

Now even relatively non-technical criminals can get up to mischief on the internet, using phishing toolkits and malware that are available for sale online at relatively affordable prices ranging from $100 to $1,000.

It's reported that turnkey web-browser exploit packages, trojans and keystroke loggers can be obtained on the internet underground. Then your novice cracker need only set up a phishing website to start collecting personal financial data with which to commit online fraud and identity theft.

If they can't use the stolen information themselves, they can simply sell it on to more advanced cybercriminals, again via the internet, apparently. µ

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