Trojans fuel ID theft boom
By Online Security Authority on Jan 16, 2007 in Online Security Authority
Phishing season
By John Leyden, Tuesday 16th January 2007
ID theft, both offline and online, is on the rise with keylogging Trojan software often forming the weapon of choice for would-be fraudsters, according to a new study by net security firm McAfee.
McAfee reckons the number of keylogging malware packages increased 250 per cent between January 2004 and May 2006. The number of phishing attacks tracked by the Anti-Phishing Working Group has multiplied 100-fold over the same period of time, it notes. Read more.
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