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September 03, 2008
Malware attacking people not networks
I had a couple of instances the other day of some rather clever 'social engineering' and Jesper Johansson has written a detailed account of this at The Register - Anatomy of a malware scam and just as I had thought to myself, Jesper also notes "I must give the criminals here credit for graying out the background to lend it credibility; a la Vista User Account Control (UAC)".
The first part gives the basics of what is going on and the remainder of the article gets a bit technical as Jesper loads up a virtual machine and installs it step-by-step showing what actually happens when this is installed on a Windows XP PC.
At the end is the conclusion which I couldn't agree more:-
This type of malware is very, very disturbing. One can only wonder how many users have been duped into installing ineffective security software, and what happened to their private information and credit card data when they paid for it. The presence of such software, and the overall very high quality of the ruse it presents, is frightening.
Posted by Stephen at September 3, 2008 04:21 PM
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