Be careful if you are accessing online banking account or other
critical information from untrusted or public computers e.g.cybercafe
. Generally keylogger traps the keyboard and record your secret
information ,you have typed in keyboard and send them to malicious
user through email or ICQ.
-R
For more info
http://www.securityfocus.com/brief/149
Keylogger use is on the rise, with millions of dollars at stake in
stolen money and ties to organized crime.
While the use of keyloggers is nothing new to SecurityFocus readers,
their use for illegal activity is continuing to rise. The New York
Times has an article discussing the growing trend of keyloggers used
by criminals to steal banking information from unwary users. As the
news coverage of keyloggers becomes more mainstream, the magnitude of
the growing problem becomes more apparent. The article reports that
Brazilian police recently broke up a fraud ring that stole $4.7
million USD from 200 different accounts using keyloggers. And earlier
this month, Russian authorities broke up a similar ring which had
stolen over $1.1 million from personal bank accounts in France.
Keyloggers can be surreptitiously installed in a myriad of ways, from
spyware drive-by Web downloads, hidden within peer-to-peer
applications or downloads, inside Trojan horses and other viruses,
files shared through IM, email, and more. Most of the time keyloggers
are installed without the user's knowledge, and it is believed that no
current anti-virus technology will identify 100% of current keylogger
threats.
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