Know the Bad Guys of Internet
By siliconindia   |   Thursday, 09 February 2012, 19:38 IST   |    1 Comments
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Bangalore: For all those poor internet-holics, who always live under the fear of getting hacked or scammed, TrendLabs released an infographic entitled "know your enemies online", which contains all information on the bad guys of internet and their attack strategies. The infographic can be used as a guide to avoid attacks. It contains capsule mode descriptions of attacks along with attackers modus operandi (operational method), business plan (what they want to achieve) and famous lines used by attackers to trap you. For example, a social media scammer will have following characters. Motive: Steal your social media login credentials Modus Operandi: Spam the social media account with links to malicious videos, apps and promos. Famous Line: "OMG! This is so FUNNY" The attackers can vary from phishers, fake anti-virus creators, App trojanizers, spammers and Malvertisers. The infographic also has details on how much money the cyber criminals make from stolen data in black market. They will get $15 for 1000 Facebook accounts, $8 for 1000 web mail accounts, $75 for 2200 Twitter accounts. The price of credit card number will range from $1 to $10 depending on the regions. A hacker gets $1 to $3 for a U.S. credit card number while an Asian or Middle East credit card details will earn him $6 to $10. "The difference in value can be accounted for supply and demand", said Rik Ferguson, director of security at Trend Micro. "Security mechanisms for U.S. cards are, in general, much lower than European ones, Chip and PIN, for example, is hardly deployed at all in the U.S, which will make the work easy for criminals", he explained.