Millions of inboxes infected by Fraud Email

October 29, 2009

Internet users in the UK was concerned about the circulation of the email on behalf of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). Email inbox or infecting email inbox victim’s and could steal the bank account passwords and other personal information.

Director of computer forensics field research from the University of Alabama, Birmingham, England Gary Warner explained that the perpetrators of cyber crimes is sending spam email with the subject ‘FDIC has officially named your bank a failed bank’ or ‘You need to check your Bank Deposit Insurance Coverage’ .

By reading the subject alone, may be predictable that the hacker tried to deceive their victims in order to check their financial accounts. Furthermore, the contents of an email that leads the victim to visit a website to download the application form on behalf of the FDIC counterfeit.

“Anyone who clicks on the link automatically download the virus named Zeus Bot. This virus has the ability to steal bank account passwords and other financial information,” Warner said, as quoted from the Big News Networks, Thursday (october,29,2009).

Warner and his team from the UAB Spam Data Mine has found the amount of spam bot Zeus virus injects this amounted to millions and increasing from day to day with a very high volume.

To that end, Warner reminded the particular Internet users email service so as not to easily believe the message in the behalf of a particular institution.

“Do not indiscriminate trust and click on the link provided to others. Instead, find out once the site is through search engines, make sure you really find the original. If this is the email sender has an important message for you, you can send questions to the site and find out who is genuine, “said Warner.


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