| One survey estimated that in 2005, losses from crimeware were in excess of 20 million pounds. |
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| The program tries to save people from themselves by blocking the inadvertent downloading of crimeware on computers. |
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| With today's criminal attacks, financial institutions must start with the assumption that their customers' computers are infected with crimeware. |
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| Criminals are learning new and unusual ways to obtain personal information, like using crimeware or credit card skimming. |
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| Cybercriminals use a variety of techniques to steal confidential data through their crimeware. |
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| The emergence of commercial-grade crimeware is arguably the number one threat to the financial community, and that threat shows no signs of letting up. |
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| One of the freeware tools he downloaded, which allowed him to place a Web counter on his site, was now inadvertently exposing his visitors to malicious crimeware. |
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| Objects aren't hacked until there's value in doing it, and now there is a rapid increase in crimeware. |
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| Much of today's crimeware is comprised of different types of Trojans, all of which are purpose-built to carry out a specific malicious function. |
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| We now have a limitless number of individual criminals or hostile states from around the globe capable of using crimeware within our technologies. |
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| The other piece of crimeware to be aware of is a rootkit called ZeroAccess. |
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| Meanwhile, two particularly nasty pieces of crimeware have emerged from the hacking underworld. |
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| Most commonly, crimeware is spread by tricking users into running code that they got in email attachments or downloaded from a malicious web site. |
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| Once an identity is stolen, it is used to access a computer user's online accounts, completing unauthorized transactions that enrich the thief controlling the crimeware. |
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| However, until now, the group has not deployed financial crimeware as part of its attack methodology. |
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| They can rent all the crimeware services they need to infiltrate a target's computer network invisibly, and remain undetected for months or years while siphoning off secrets for sale. |
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| Examinations of the targeted crimeware threats that are growing in potency and evasive capacities. |
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| If it does, they will promptly reverse-engineer the software patch and sell it as crimeware for subverting unprotected XP machines, turning them into zombies for perpetrating scams and other online crimes. |
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| All businesses, big and small, need to protect themselves from computer viruses, hackers, spyware, crimeware, spam, phishing sites, and even pop-ups. |
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| Finally, you will relieve constant updates with the last editions and in this way you will be protected from the most updated editions of crimeware. |
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| Malware is a broad term used to refer to many different forms of hostile, intrusive, or annoying software, such as computer viruses, worms, trojan horses, rootkits, spyware, dishonest adware, and crimeware. |
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| Some of the common types of threats and threat technologies detected by TrendLabs include spam, adware, spyware, malware, crimeware, botnets, phishing, and rootkits. |
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| Norton Reputation Service instantly checks where files came from and how long they've been around to identify and stop new crimeware faster than other, less sophisticated security software. |
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| August's crimeware toolkit list includes the known MPack, NeoSploit, IcePack, WebAttacker, WebAttacker2 and MultiExploit toolkits, as well as new toolkits such as random. |
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| Crimeware can wait for the user to log into their account at a financial institution, then drain the account behind the scenes. |
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| Crimeware can enable remote access into applications, allowing criminals to break into networks for malicious purposes. |
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| Crimeware can surreptitiously install keystroke loggers to collect sensitive data login and password information for online bank accounts, and report them back to the thief. |
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| Crimeware can have a significant economic impact due to loss of sensitive and proprietary information, not to mention the associated financial losses. |
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| According to Finjan, the NeoSploit 2 toolkit marks a serious escalation of Crimeware potential, since it uses the Software-as-a-Service business model. |
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