Your computer time is what they
will try to steal at first. Your PC can be used in criminal acts without
your knowledge.
03 January 2006
Check here for advice
how to protect against Computer Hijacking
Computer Hijacking
The recent attacks that stopped popular Internet services and one major Australian bank used thousands
of so called "bots" to attack their targets. Usual "Zombie"
or "Bot" is a normal home PC, hacked and equipped with backdoor. Read here
more about it.
Hijacked computers are used for various criminal activities.
- Credit card numbers entered on such computer will be used to steal goods.
- Identity of the people that legally used hijacked computer could be stolen
- Hijacked computer can be used to store and distribute pornography
- Hijacked computer can be used to store and distribute pirated software
- Most of spam e-mails these days are sent by bots
- Attacking public servers for ransom
Media reports can be easily found here
Other less dangerous but still nasty use of computer hijacking could
be using it for crackig other people passwords. Owner
of hijacked PC could spend quite a lot of time to get cleared after being identified as participant of criminal activities.
And of course the last but not least unpleasant could be stealing
PC owner Internet traffic.
Check how long it takes before regular (configured by default) home PC
usually get hacked while connected to the Internet (honeynet
project).
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