13:58 Fraudsters use the hype around the iphone | |
| Not only Apple, AT & T and accessory makers have all the amenities of hype around the iPhone. Virus writers and scammers, too, have found a way how you can profit from this situation. They have already managed to create a botnet of users who wanted to buy himself a new "wonder device" from Apple. Company PandaLabs has detected this week botnet of 7.5 thousand computers (the number is constantly growing), infected with a trojan called Aifone.A. PC users who tried to buy an iPhone from the site iphone.com, owned by Apple, to be forwarded to a fake site that mimics the site iPhone. If users have ordered the iPhone through the dummy site, the information about the bank or credit card fell into the hands of fraudsters. "This is one of the most sophisticated attacks aimed at specific community, this time for buyers iPhone», - said the technical director of PandaLabs Kerrons Lewis (Luis Corrons). - "It's really complex, dangerous attack that combines elements of malware (trojan Aifone.A), phishing (fraudulent Web site iPhone) and even advertising spyware (pop-up windows, changing search results, etc.). The company stressed that if the Trojans are now using for their own purposes excitement around the iPhone, then later from source Aifone.A can collect the same trojan, but for the use of hype around, for example, of a Zune 2. "Lucky" to have caught this trojan could be users of Windows 2003/XP/2000/NT/ME/98/95 - owners of Windows Vista Aifone.A Trojan bypassed. | |
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