Cyber crime tool kits go on sale
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Cyber criminals are cashing in on their expertise by offering tool kits that let anyone craft attacks.
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Site Offer 30% off this and other open source titles
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A toolkit designed to exploit a recently-disclosed Microsoft JPEG vulnerability has been released onto the net.
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SAN FRANCISCO -    For ransom: your sensitive computer files. In the latest online scam, cybercrooks are breaking into the PCs of small businesses and individuals, locking up data and demanding money in return for freeing it.
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Bad guys looking for shiny new botnets, Trojans, rootkits, and spyware this holiday season have plenty to choose from.
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Scammers and hackers are targeting the human factor in system setups. Part of a series on hot security topics.
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Trojan tools are swapping hands online for just $600, RSA manager says, with bulk discounts available on compromised log-in details.
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9 out of 10 crooks use ready-made code Phishing kits are helping to dumb down the process of creating fraudulent websites. Back in the day, setting up a bogus facsimile of a banking site required a modicum of programming skills. No more.â¦
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Help for the small fry A new website has been developed to help small and medium enterprises (SMEs) protect themselves from cyber crime.â¦
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Netcraft, a UK-based security firm, has released a toolbar to help protect users against phishing attacks. It displays the attributes of Web sites the user visits, helping to determine whether sites are likely to be legitimate.
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Software kits make it easy for novice hackers to earn a living by sending out malware-laden spam.
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Netcraft has released an Internet Explorer plug-in that could help people avoid becoming victims of online fraud. The Internet security company heralded the plug-in toolbar, which displays information about
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For the first time outside London, Welsh businesses join workshops to speak to police about internet crime.
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'Tis the season for online scams, spam, and malware attacks. Here's what you need to know.
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In a twist, security researchers have discovered a group of hackers who are exploiting a new category of victims -- aspiring Internet scammers.A Moroccan group called &quot;Mr. Brain&quot; is offering free phishing kits on a Web site hosted in France, said Paul Mutton, Internet services developer at Netcraft, a security company in Bath, England.The software packages make it easy to quickly set up a fraudulent Web site mimicking a known brand in order to trick people into divulging credit card details or bank account numbers. Templates for spam e-mail are also included, targeting brands such as Bank of America, eBay, PayPal, and HSBC.Mr. Brain&#39;s Web site lists the kits and what kind of details each one is capable of collecting, such as usernames, passwords or Social Security numbers. Netcraft posted screenshots on its Web site.But what the aspiring scammer doesn&#39;t know is that the phishing kits are designed to send any sensitive information that&#39;s collected back to e-mail accounts controlled by Mr. Brain, Mutton said.&quot;Obviously, that&#39;s why they are offering this stuff for free,&quot; Mutton said. &quot;I was impressed by it.&quot;Mr. Brain hides the special e-mail function in a blend of PHP scripts, one of which is encrypted, Mutton said. Just in case someone decrypts it, Mr. Brain has written at the top of the file &quot;Don&#39;t need to change anything here. Created by Mr. Brain Morocco Team.&quot;The scheme seems to be targeted at new phishers, Mutton said. Mr. Brain benefits since other wannabe scammers shoulder the cost and risk of finding an ISP (Internet Service Provider) to host the phishing site, Mutton said.&quot;Essentially, they&#39;re exploiting all these novice phishers -- basically getting them to do all the hard work,&quot; Mutton said.It&#39;s difficult to tell without further research how many of the free phishing kits linked with this latest scam are live on the Internet, but Mutton said Netcraft noticed one earlier this month targeting Bank of America.&quot;Clearly, these are actively being used in phishing attacks,&quot; Mutton said.
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A toolkit designed to exploit a recently-disclosed Microsoft JPEG vulnerability has been released onto the net. The toolkit (screen shot from AV firm F-Secure here) makes it trivially easy for maliciously-minded
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Regulators are trying to prevent scams caused by software that computer users may not even know is on their PCs.