With the technology evolving continuously, activities of cyber criminals are also increasing. Taking advantage of inadequate enterprise security cyber crooks are spreading the wings of this low-risk criminal business. Criminal gangs are targeting top students from leading academic institutions to enrich their resources for committing hi-tech crimes. To ensure the next generation of malicious coders and hackers they are sponsoring young graduates everywhere.
The gangs with criminal intentions have formed an online cult, which gives them status of celebrities within online communities. And they also spread ‘black-hat’ hacking tricks in this cult.
Cyber criminals basically targeting social networking and community sites and spread ad ware, mal wares and viruses through these media. And the authors of such viruses are cashing in depending on their popularity.
They are developing new tricks daily, which make them harder to detect. Following are the basic things they use.
The gangs with criminal intentions have formed an online cult, which gives them status of celebrities within online communities. And they also spread ‘black-hat’ hacking tricks in this cult.
Cyber criminals basically targeting social networking and community sites and spread ad ware, mal wares and viruses through these media. And the authors of such viruses are cashing in depending on their popularity.
They are developing new tricks daily, which make them harder to detect. Following are the basic things they use.
Phishing attack:
Hackers design fake emails same as your banks have and forward that email asking your passwords for some security reasons. If you fall in their trap you can lose your all money.
Botnets:
These are the robot networks of illegally linked computers, which can be operated remotely and one of the preferred methods of performing attacks.
Trojans:
With the help of Trojan hacker can control a computer in many ways and can destroy data to great extent too. Hackers can send Trojan to you by mails, chat rooms, or files you download from internet.
I guess if you are aware of these you can at least try to stay away from hackers.
Cyber criminals have psychological warfare to try an attack and to succeed. They keep on practicing things to increase their knowledge. There hard work makes them masterminds of the dark world. But all they have is used for organized crimes. They explore the databases, breakdown networks, crack bank accounts or play mind games. Everything they do to make fast money with minimum risk. This new formatted structure is becoming more professional and strategic in its working, which is one of the recent alarming threats.
Evolving technologies in smart-phones and mobiles like Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, GPRS and VoIP they are getting new challenges and it is again increasing the number of criminals in the cyber world. Cyber crime is longer in its infancy it’s a big business with vast opportunities.
This disease of technology does not have and one-time medicine or vaccine. It is something to be continuously worked at rather than complete cure and ‘Ethical Hackers’ can be the only way.
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