New Identity Theft And Online Fraud Techniques

Authors of computer viruses and threats (including phishing scams) are looking for direct financial profit from cybercrime. For this reason, they are using more innovative and diversified techniques to, above all, steal users’ identities or obtain bank details to commit fraud.

In the first half of 2006, PandaLabs registered a 50 percent increase in identity theft and online fraud related activity. What’s more, it detected new tricks that used phishing techniques but with different methods than those traditionally used.

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