This is scary
By Jeremy Clark
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business, IT, microsoft, security, spam, tech | 12 views
According to Symantec
U.S.-based credit cards with a card verification number were available for between US$1 to $6, while an identity†including a U.S. bank account, credit card, date of birth and government-issued identification number†was available for between $14 to $18,
To gain access to the information needed for the sale of identities hackers use a combination of social engineering, maliciously crafted word documents, and any of the zero-day exploits being announced all the time. They then send the word document with it’s dubious payload to unexpecting users. Since it is a word document commonly assumed to be safe and since most email servers don’t block these type of attachments, the user happily clicks on it and all is lost.
- Symantec has a video showing how these attacks happen.
- Macworld has the rest of article on this very scary transaction.
- Symantec’s full white paper on the whole deal here. (warning large pdf)
- Itwire also has this article on more of Symantec’s report.
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