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Awareness of phishing driving malware writers to other means


phishing Although the targets of crimeware writers looking to gain financially from their exploits tend to be larger financial institutions located in Europe or Asia, it's likely that North America will see more online fraud using rootkits and other forms of crimeware in the coming years.

Crimeware isn't entirely unknown in North America, of course. The first wave of crimeware started with phishing attacks that played (and continue to play) on the trusting nature of Internet users. It was the first generation of online fraud, said Uriel Maimon, office of the CTO at RSA, and while there are still people using phishing scams for nefarious purposes (and succeeding, in many cases), the education of end-users has helped to reduce the effectiveness of it.

However, as more people become aware of the tricks used in phishing, the online fraudsters are being forced to turn to more sophisticated technologies. [ Integrated mar.com ]





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