Forgotten website: Promised land for cybercrime

Security experts have just said that cyber criminals tend to switch to using " forgotten " sites to attack users instead of using " illegal tools " like Dangerous application programs to break into PCs and steal users' bank accounts like before.

So it can be said that these websites seem to have become a " new fertile promised land " for cyber criminals. The main reason leading to this new trend, according to experts, is that when using these sites, their whereabouts are harder to detect.

Jim Melnick, an expert with security firm Idefense, said websites that are no longer in operation and forgotten by administrators have become hundreds of new bustling markets for cybercrime. 'In my opinion, these websites can be compared with low-income areas that have been forgotten by the lords or a place for trafficking. If someone dared to step into one corner of these lands, I believe they would dare to go to the other corners in that area . '

Financial scams in 2005 took consumers and businesses nearly $ 15 billion with more than 10 million victims becoming prey to gangsters stealing bank accounts. The statistics of Gartner market research firm made us startled. Businesses suffer the most damage, while consumers can be compensated for losses while businesses do not.

Security experts fear that sooner or later, cyber criminals who specialize in stealing personal information or bank accounts will move to areas that are hard to detect - here are the websites. forgotten.

Today, for example, advertising for personal account information software applications often appears on the least suspicious websites, making it difficult for managers to discover them.

Melnick of IDefense said that more and more cybercriminals will go to forgotten sites after governments last year focused on scanning these criminals.

Johannes Ullrich, researcher at Sans Research Institute, said cyber criminals could take a forgotten site to serve their dark goals every year before they are discovered. . Meanwhile, finding information about the owners of these websites is often difficult because the administrator has removed all information about him. Every time someone closes a website, cyber criminals will set up a ' store ' at that address.

' This is really a serious problem .' Ullrich said. ' We can't do much. This is like a powerful blow against a breakwater . "

Meanwhile, security experts have attributed the disappearance of some sites to the US government's decision last year to focus on scanning and closing down some websites of cyber criminals. This makes a lot of criminal organizations have to go to forgotten sites to ' revive ' their fraudulent trafficking.

' It's all like something wild - like the Wild West for those who want to go with their own feet but can't claim themselves in a criminal organization. A fairly simple philosophy . '