Beware of a hacker who is on the prowl–disguising as a job seeker–to commit theft of your personal or confidential information. The attacker who sends e-mails to managers seeking job applicants, requesting them in a cover letter to make a visit to a website to have a look at a resume sent through a link. If a manager hits a click on the provided link, the website after that makes an attempt to execute a backdoor Trojan to compromise the machine.
Marc Cote, manager of network services at a Midwest engineering firm was heard of saying that his engineering firm of late had to face phishing methods that makes use of the bait of bogus online resumes.
He said that the attackers seem to have adopted a new technique of releasing targeted phishing scams from the job-related site CareerBuilder.com. Cote said that his firm regularly posts job openings on CareerBuilder.com; recently he has seen proof that the hackers now have started exploiting online recruitment process.
