[pchelpers] News:MessageLabs have Discovered That Hackers Are Exploiting the Current Credit Crunch

(27.06.08) - Tier-3, the behavioural analysis IT security specialist,
says that newswire reports that recruitment sites are being used by
hackers to infect users with malware and other security threats reflect
the increasingly devious approach that hackers are taking.

"MessageLabs have discovered that hackers are exploiting the current
credit crunch, and the fact that many senior people's careers are
stagnating as a result. They are luring people with the promise of new
jobs and higher salaries, but all users end up with is an infected PC or
worse," said Geoff Sweeney, Tier-3's CTO.

According to Sweeney, the IT security vendors' research has uncovered a
legitimate ad on a large Australian recruitment Web site that is being
referenced by an RTF (rich text format) letter with an embedded Adobe
PDF file.

"Internet users think the email and its associated RTF file are genuine,
but they end up infecting their PCs with a Trojan that opens their
machines up to remote hackers," he said.

More here:
http://www.itseccity.de/?url=/content/worldwidenews/productsnews/080627_wor_akt_tier3.html
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