Hackers make 57,000 booby-trapped websites weekly: experts

bigbazza · Sep 12, 2010

I am not sure where to post this. It could go under Software, Lounge, Malware or Interesting Links. As it relates mostly to Software posted onto your PC, I've settled for here.

Hackers make 57,000 booby-trapped websites weekly: experts say.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100910/tc_afp/usitinternetsoftwarecrimepandasecurity

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) – About 57,000 seemingly legitimate websites booby-trapped by hackers spring up on the Internet each week, computer security researchers at PandaLabs said.

The online traps are often made to look like versions of legitimate bank, auction, or shopping websites, according to the team at Spain-based Panda Security.

"The problem is that when you visit a website through email or search engines, it can be difficult for users to know whether it is genuine or not," said PandaLabs technical director Luis Corrons.

"Although search engines are making an effort to mitigate the situation by changing indexing algorithms, they have so far been unable to offset the avalanche of new websites being created by hackers every day."

Cyber crooks try to pass their rigged websites off as legitimate, putting links in emails or posts at social networks and getting them listed in query results at search engines.

Bogus websites are typically designed to slip viruses onto visitors's computers and trick people into typing in valuable information such as account names or passwords.
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I guess most of us have been caught at some time. We hope we grow smarter, in time.

Article is for newbies, and to reinforce what risks we all take, daily, on the Net.

Bazza

ItsWendy · Sep 13, 2010

I have found word of mouth from trusted sources highly effective. When my boy started puberty it was hairy though. Ouch, let me rephrase that...

Spad · Sep 14, 2010

Think before you click . . . and know how to kill strange popups via Task Manager.

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Hackers make 57,000 booby-trapped websites weekly: experts

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