Crimeware – A new theft Virus

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 Internet is a public area,where people connect with each other to share knowledge and even nowadays it is mostly used in businesses also for rapid transfers of their payments.As in real world,theft tries to steal money from peoples and banks using different techniques,similarly,in computer world billion of users work on Internet at the same time,so it is difficult to monitor the billions what they are doing!

Black Hat hackers tries to steal money by using different techniques.Among these techniques,one is the usage of viruses.They illegally enters a system and execute the virus there.Then,they perform the task,which they desire from it (stealing money,account theft,files etc). Nowadays,a new virus has been developed by these hackers to steal money with an advanced technique.This virus is named as Crimeware .

Crimeware not only stole money from online credit cards but also creates a fake online bank statement, so that the targeted person don’t know about this robbery.Cyber criminals uses debit cards information to vacate the person’s account.The whole process is so accurate and complete that the target wouldn’t know about the transaction.

At present,the virus affected the accounts of peoples of America and UK and spreading rapidly in the rest of the world. Crimeware is the new version of spy Trojan horse.Whenever,the affected person checkout his online account,he finds it alright because of the false statement generated by the virus.But he get-in the theft,when the bank tell him about the empty account.Most of the affectees have Windows OS installed on their systems.

One way to protect form this technique is to update your browsers and to enable Anti Phishing option,which will prevent your computer from blacklist websites and false bank statements.