Since most consumers have wised up when it comes to phishers, increasingly, fraudsters are turning to malware--installing Trojan software onto computers by getting consumers to click on links or on ads on legitimate sites.
Several Private Investigation firms in Israel were found to have tricked their targets into installing custom Trojan software which then stole documents and exported them to servers in Germany and the UK. They were using a service developed by Michael Haephrati.
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Police have begun busting a cabal of programmers who used malicious computer software known as a Trojan horse to spy on more than a dozen companies and then sell information about their operations to competitors.
Crooks have developed a new Mac OS X-specific Trojan that mimics the behaviour of a legitimate software installer.
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And even though Microsoft has a feature in its Internet Explorer browser designed to steer users away from unknown and potentially untrustworthy software, about 5 percent of users ignore the warnings and download malicious Trojan horse programs anyway. via Microsoft: One in 14 downloads is malicious.
Compare that with the Trojan Horse strategies of rivals Claria (once known as Gator) and WhenU: Their software is often embedded in games or screen savers that many people download unknowingly. (The companies insist they give fair warning of what you're downloading in their click-on licenses.) "No need to be obnoxious, " says Keith Smith, 33, who founded 180 in 1999.
Among 2, 500 firms surveyed last summer, 88% had antiviral software in place, yet an even larger percentage were infected by viruses, worms, Trojan horses or other "malware, " says Information Security magazine.
Of 2, 500 companies surveyed last summer, 88% had antiviral software in place, yet an even larger percentage were infected by viruses, worms, Trojan horses or other "malware, " says Information Security magazine.
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