Web full of free programs to hack sites, bank details ‘at click of a button’
April 30th, 2011 - 5:06 pm ICT by ANIMelbourne, April 30 (ANI): IT experts have warned that easy-to-use programs that can access bank details and crash websites are multiplying online, resulting in an increase in attacks during the past year.
“The software is free, looks like any other Windows or Apple program, and it can infiltrate computers with the click of a button,” News.com.au quoted a spokesman for IT security company Symantec.
“Cybercrime is no longer limited to those with advanced programming skills,” the spokesman said.
The company suggested that the “attack kits” created more than 286 million variants of so-called malware last year, accounting for more than 60 per cent of malicious web activity. (ANI)
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