Well, with the sole aim of making most out of the cyber world, hackers utilize many a different techniques, which, to our surprise, are normally not known to us. Sometime ago, there was news of cybercrooks making use of the Google ads that also brought about irreparable losses to many users, and now as told by Dan Hubbard, vice president of security research at Websense, the tainted web pages, which at first came into existence in late 2005, are said to be turning up as Google ad links, on Wikipedia and elsewhere, “from top-tier names to mom and pop bakery shops.”
The web pages are being corrupted by cyber criminals in the tens of thousands. The hackers, by hitting vulnerabilities in the IE browser, instill small programs that link the computer of anybody who just hit clicks on the tainted page to a “mother ship” server, based generally in Russia or China. The “mother ship” server gathers data, which is typed into online forms - banking logins and shopping cart transactions. The central server is also said to seize the intercepted computer into a network of exploited PCs, called “bots,” to disseminate spam.
