Recently there has been a large increase of viruses and malware that steal login information and credit card for sending to criminals. Four years ago, 'snapped the general alarm and the FBI began investigations on a multitude of data theft and identity, against Internet users worldwide. The crimes were committed through computer viruses that are downloaded automatically to your computer when you visit sites infected by exploiting security holes or tricking the user persuaded to run an infected program.
The first type of virus that can do this to have spread on a large scale was discovered in 2005 by Sunbelt Software and was baptized by the same company as "Srv.SSA-KeyLogger.
Unlike other virus-keylogger, which merely record the letters typed on the keyboard and record them so difficult to decipher, this new type of threat is able to reconstruct the data stored by the browser to the clipboard and automatically complete Web forms, a property which makes it particularly dangerous, since in this way, numbers and passwords collected and sent to the cyber criminals with malware are already beautiful and ready to use and can be easily exploited.
were localized to the central servers such as viruses are transmitted with stolen account information to access the accounts of more than fifty banks and personal details of thousands of users of eBay and Paypal.
So far, the main vehicles of infection are the pages that host illegal material and file-sharing networks, but researchers do not rule out that the problem could extend to legitimate sites.
precautions to be taken against this threat are the usual: 1) run all the updates available for the operating system and browser in order to plug any loopholes exploited by this malware, 2) use (consciously) a firewall, so that even if the virus had somehow managed to infect your PC has no way to convey cybercriminals data collection 3) use an antivirus and antimalware 4) adopt common sense and avoid suspicious software to run.
If you had the "need" to run a program found on the web or from a network file-sharing (such as eMule, Torrent, etc..) And are not sure of its reliability and strongly recommend that you use the free online scan multiple find the link on right in this blog under "Analyze Suspicious Files" since the mere scanning with any antivirus software on your PC if this is not sufficient to ensure that the file is trustworthy.
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