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...phishing, search engine optimisation (SEO) spam, advertising click fraud, and distribution of adware and malicious programs. Kaspersky Laboratories has researched prices of illegal applications advertised in chat rooms and clandestine... http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2009/07/23/237015/kaspersky-reveals-price-list-for-botnet-attacks.htm
...users have recently lost some form of virtual property through fraud. In less than a year, more than 30,000 new malicious programs have been detected specifically targeting accounts and property in online games and virtual worlds. Such malware... http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2008/11/21/233507/fraud-and-theft-in-virtual-worlds-must-be-tackled-says-eu.htm
...spyware, administrators have listed it as their top security concern. Trojans, keyloggers and other stealthy malicious programs have replaced mail-borne viruses and worms as the weapons of choice for attackers looking to plant their wares... http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2006/08/08/217579/spyware-war-may-be-a-losing-battle-experts-say.htm
...abundant, but since the commercialisation of malware in the early part of this decade, the volume of different malicious programs has gone off the charts. With infection now possible simply from visiting a legitimate website (BusinessWeek... http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2009/05/08/235952/free-anti-virus-software-vs-paid-for-products.htm
...Criminals are using insecure websites to infect the browsers of visitors with viruses, Trojans and keyloggers. These malicious programs use browser components such as Flash and QuickTime, which are seldom patched automatically, to install themselves... http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2008/01/14/228890/sans-institute-reveals-top-10-cyber-threats-for-2008.htm
...Kaspersky Lab said that in 2007, the number of new malicious programs recorded on the internet - including viruses, worms...in addition to the quantity, the quality of malicious programs is also improving. New and more complex samples... http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2008/04/11/230269/malware-will-increase-10-times-in-2008-claims-security.htm
...seeks ways to access it and use it to their advantage. Attacks from the outside are typically achieved through malicious programs designed to install backdoors into the network. However, these days most enterprises have full protection from... http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2008/04/07/230175/infosecurity-europe-2008-inside-threat-greater-risk-to-data.htm
...risk to the Mac user, as well as to their contacts. There are also the platform-independent issues: whereas malicious programs such as banking Trojans are mostly Windows executables, many ID theft-related attacks, such as phishing and... http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2008/07/08/231396/macs-and-malware.htm
Security Alerts Almost two-thirds of malicious codes on web are Trojans More than 63% of new malicious programs that appeared during the second quarter of 2008 were Trojans, according to the latest quarterly report from security... http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2008/07/08/231403/almost-two-thirds-of-malicious-codes-on-web-are-trojans.htm
...then examined the customer's PC. Although up-to-date anti-virus software was installed, they found 14 malicious programs, including keylogging software. The bank must now pay for the resulting losses. The court based its decision... http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2008/07/07/231385/banks-are-liable-for-phishing-attacks-on-customers-says-german.htm

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