Prestigious event football world held shortly. Before the holding of the 2014 World Cup on June 12, 2014 in Brazil , the cyber criminals began an action in the virtual world . The target is the football lovers.
The online fraudsters create websites that resemble domains official World Cup, including the domain of the sponsors and partners, as well as leading brands. The goal is to deceive users into providing their personal data such as usernames, passwords, and credit card numbers.
"In Brazil, we detect new phishing domains 50-60 and domains every day is usually quite sophisticated and designed with highly skilled. Fact, casual users will not be easy to distinguish a fake domain with the original domain, obviously Fabio Assolini, Senior Security Researcher, Global Research and Analysis Team, Kaspersky Lab.
Some phishing sites even look safe. For example , the URL may begin with 'https', where 's' here means 'secure' or safe. The cyber criminals seem to be able to buy the original SSL certificate from a certification authority. Sometimes phishing domains also have a mobile version with the original look and feel that targeting users of smartphones and tablets.
The original SSL certificate usage is also used cyber criminals to infect users computers with malware. In one fraudulent scheme, users in Brazil will receive a message stating that they have won the World Cup match tickets. If a user clicks on a link (URL) to print out the ticket, the link will lead to a Trojan banker with a digital signed.
Another attack uses a database of customers who have been compromised. The scammer will send a personal email that tells the recipient that they have won the World Cup match tickets. The email - which mentions the recipient 's full name, date of birth, and full address - has a PDF attachment that is mentioned as a prize-winning ticket. However, the attachment is actually a Trojan banker.
Cyber crimes that exploit the appeal of the World Cup not only in Brazil but in the entire world. His crime was not relatively new, the experts at Kaspersky Lab report any spam and Nigerian letter fraud themed World Cup in February.
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