items tagged with Cybercrime

There’s real concern amongst Australian consumers who do their shopping, make payments and undertake banking transactions online that the current economic crisis has increased the risk of their identity being stolen or that they will be the target of cyber criminals.

That devil of a Conficker worm that’s never far from the surface these days is likely to cause a significant increase in spam levels over the next three months, according to a report by yet another security firm that’s closely monitoring the worm’s exploits.

If you thought that the spotty teen hacker working from a back bedroom was an outdated stereotype now that organised cybercrime is big business, think again. It seems the server room is just as likely to be targeted by teens out to top up their pocket money.

The BBC in the UK has reported that it has easily acquired its own botnet controlling thousands of home computers as part of an investigation into global cybercrime.

So-called drive-by download components dominated the latest security threats to our computers during February as cybercriminals attempted to compromise the security of users’ systems.