Internet criminals target families
FAMILIES risk being fleeced by cyber criminals as parents use online
banking facilities on the same home computers that their children use
to chat with their school friends.
Internet fraudsters are using “social engineering” - teens are
tricked into opening emails or links containing viruses that can then
track key strokes – including account log-in details, federal police
said yesterday.
The social engineering scam begins with amalgamation of information children reveal on social networking sites.
Broadband bandits “spear phish’” – conning kids into believing they are a friend via a personalised message.
If the child responds, the criminals install malicious software, or “malware”, which contains the key-logger.
“MySpace,
Facebook … there are hundreds of these sites (on which young) people
are posting a lot of personal information without taking the relevant
precautions,” AFP national co-ordinator of high-tech crime operations Peter Sykora said.
Read more…Internet criminals target families | News | News.com.au
