Money making CyberCrime schemes
In addition to new emerging and more harmful threats, McAfee and Symantec also
noticed an increase in money making cyber crime schemes. According to a recent
Gartner report, threats are moving toward databases, allowing hackers to gain
complete control over a network or a personal computer. In turn, this allows the
hacker to hijack confidential and personal information for ransom. The McAfee
Virtual Criminology Report: North American Study into Organized Crime and the
Internet report released June 5 of this year suggests that there is a new
hierarchy of Cyber Criminals, and that each level, from amateur to professional,
has different tactics and motives.
The
most interesting development in recent years is cyber gangs, who sit at the top
of this Cyber Crime chain. These advanced groups of career criminals and hackers
agree to cooperate, plan and execute long-term attack strategies that are of
little interest to the socially-motivated hacker or script kiddy. With the
increasing sophistication of cybercrime, from phishing (pronounced
"FISHING") to social engineering and Internet scams, the report raises
awareness of how organized crime and cybercrime are developing and how
businesses and individuals can protect themselves against criminal activity.
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