Credit card fraud increased sharply

The number of hackers attacking their banking facilities and customers increased by 81% this year, according to SecureWorks at the BlackHat conference on IT safety this week at Caesars Palace, Las Vegas (USA).

According to SecureWorks, from June to December 2006, the company sealed off attacks originating from 808 hackers per month for each bank it protected. And in 2007 (as of June), this number reached 1,462.

Network security experts say that this increase reflects an individual's ease of access to the network, which may not be particularly good at computing, to create a system for stealing information. Bank. And this information can be sold to other cybercriminals or simply used by the audience for creating fake credit cards.

According to researcher Joe Stewart, of SecureWork, just a few hundred dollars, people can buy all the software with bad intentions needed for illicit schemes.

Among the most frequently stolen data, credit card numbers, social security cards, online pay credit, user names . are the most popular bad guys.

Duc Truong