Comments on: Real-World Social Engineering to Spread Malware Online http://blogs.mcafee.com/mcafee-labs/real-world-social-engineering-to-spread-malware-online Tue, 29 Nov 2011 07:51:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Brian Turner http://blogs.mcafee.com/mcafee-labs/real-world-social-engineering-to-spread-malware-online/comment-page-1#comment-21847 Brian Turner Thu, 05 Feb 2009 19:05:27 +0000 http://www.labs.com/research/blog/?p=798#comment-21847 It's pretty scary to see virus attacks moving from online to offline - however, it'll be interesting to see if existing surveillance technology will therefore make tracking down perpetrators easier. After all, harder to work with anonymous proxies and zombie machines in the offline world - unless, of course, these people are being recruited by supposed "work from home" internet business schemes. 2c. It’s pretty scary to see virus attacks moving from online to offline – however, it’ll be interesting to see if existing surveillance technology will therefore make tracking down perpetrators easier. After all, harder to work with anonymous proxies and zombie machines in the offline world – unless, of course, these people are being recruited by supposed “work from home” internet business schemes. 2c.

]]> By: GovernmentSecurity.org http://blogs.mcafee.com/mcafee-labs/real-world-social-engineering-to-spread-malware-online/comment-page-1#comment-21843 GovernmentSecurity.org Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:54:34 +0000 http://www.labs.com/research/blog/?p=798#comment-21843 Highly effective yes. But can this method really be used to generate a large number of victims before it is shut down. The fact that it requires physical interaction which reduces the anonymity of the perpetrator is also going to reduce the number of times we see this happening. Perhaps a more effective and more profitable crime would be issuing fake parking tickets and then allowing people to pay them online at a reduced rate. Say $20. If people though they were saving $50 on a parking fine they will probably be less eager to question the ticket. Highly effective yes. But can this method really be used to generate a large number of victims before it is shut down. The fact that it requires physical interaction which reduces the anonymity of the perpetrator is also going to reduce the number of times we see this happening.

Perhaps a more effective and more profitable crime would be issuing fake parking tickets and then allowing people to pay them online at a reduced rate. Say $20. If people though they were saving $50 on a parking fine they will probably be less eager to question the ticket.

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