Phishers attack on the fans in Brazil

According to security company McAfee, a phishing attack has just released a picture of Brazil’s coach participation “Dunga” appears as a heavy beating. The picture is very photo-shopped. The scam is a fake news that loves football, Dunga indignantly attacked because he chose not Neymar Goose and the two players, 23-man team for this month (June 2010) World Cup will be held in South Africa. Besides presenting an extremely bad image Dunga changed, the scam also a network of links that lead to images of the fight. But when you click on the link, takes a web page to another Malaysian government apparently seems to have been hacked. McAfee reports that the link should provide images of the attacks by the fans, in fact, a Trojan horse – “PWS-Banker. Gen. notice.” Despite the proliferation through phishing e-mail, PWS-Banker plants a rootkit and steal confidential data from infected computer. McAfee also said that today’s phishers have become typical of the major sports players. They use social engineering tactics against their victims. Therefore, the fact that people around the world will find more of these phishing incidents craze for the World Cup is increasing worldwide. Furthermore, security analysts say that if English football, “Rooney” broken his leg while fighting in a club, or someone knocks Brazilian footballer Ronaldo “because they deserve a long, promising Online Fraud is not something unexpected images quickly. Therefore, Internet fraud attacks during the 2010 World Cup is not regarded as a security challenge exclusively for SA. Apart from McAfee, Symantec, another security company, says that during the first tournaments in the World Cup, had been quite a number of fraud on the Internet during the games. Although the Internet is increasing in popularity worldwide, both cyber-crime gangs and individuals are distributed equally. Therefore, the Internet provides cyber-criminals to hunt down victims, while making fun of geographical boundaries. Therefore, the late sports enthusiasts themselves, require caution to remain safe from attacks by these cyber criminals. “