Experts have warned of online hackers who are making attempts to cash in on the recent Virginia Tech bloodbath, by disseminating thousands of emails claiming to be consisted with camera phone footage of the shootings.
However a link to a Brazilian website in fact conceals a programme which commits theft of banking info. The pernicious programme, called spyware, makes attempt to commit theft of banking passwords and other info from the PCs of online bankers.
Labeling the move sick, Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant for Sophos, an IT security firm, was quoted as saying,
The hackers have no qualms about making money out of other people’s misery.
Formerly, hackers made use of natural catastrophes and atrocities as Hurricane Katrina, the Boxing Day tsunami and the London bombings to put out of sight likewise attacks. Mr Cluley advised PC users to ensure that their anti-virus software is up to date and to be wary of unsolicited emails.
